Jason Costa
Having fun, working on product.
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About
Jason Costa is currently working on Content & Communities at Reddit. Previously, he was a Venture Partner at GGV Capital where he led six investments and spent significant time advising the fund's portfolio on product strategy in both the US & China. Prior to joining the GGV fund, he was one of the first members of the monetization team at Pinterest (and one of the first 100 employees), where he helped launch their ads API, analytics tool for businesses, billing infrastructure, and the ads campaign management interface. Additionally, he led consumer efforts on the Pins team, including product managing the Rich Pins and Video products. Jason also worked on the platform team at Twitter, managing an ecosystem of more than a million apps, and at Google where he helped launch the Google Checkout API and the OpenSocial schema. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from USC and an MBA from MIT.
Experience
Jan 2023 to Mar 2026
Apr 2019 to Dec 2022
Having a blast at Reddit, spearheading the Consumer Experience.
Aug 2016 to Oct 2018
Deployed ~$15M across 6 deals (4 seed, 1 A, 1 B). Advised portfolio (US & China).
Jun 2013 to Jul 2016
Built the Ads product, and then led the Pins UX team. One of the first 100 employees.
Apr 2011 to May 2013
Working on APIs & syndication products, enabling an ecosystem of 1m+ apps.
Jan 2005 to Jan 2009
Driving the success of strategic developer products and APIs. Set up several international offices, building satellite engineering teams in: Ireland (Dublin in '07), India (Hyderabad in '07/'08), and China (Beijing in '08/'09).
Education
MBA, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
B.S., Computer Science