Jason Shen
Founder & CEO | Inspiring Leaders to Thrive Under Pressure
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Jason Shen is the Founder and CEO of Midgame, a company that helps leaders build resilience and high-performing teams. As a former product manager at Intercom and Y Combinator alum, Shen has helped startups scale from the ground up.
His insightful perspectives on the psychology of high-achievers have been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and NPR's Hidden Brain. Shen's keynotes draw on his personal experience building companies and researching human potential to show audiences how to overcome adversity, unlock creativity, and lead with purpose.
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Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience
Very few of us hold jobs that line up directly with our past experiences or what we studied in college. Take TED Resident Jason Shen; he studied biology but later became a product manager at a tech company. In this quick, insightful talk about human potential, Shen shares some new thinking on how job seekers can make themselves more attractive -- and why employers should look for ability over credentials.
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