Jason Johnson (entrepreneur)

Jason Johnson is an American technology entrepreneur who has co-founded several organizations including August Home, Founders Den, Rethink Books, and BlueSprig.

Johnson is CEO of August Home, a Bluetooth-enabled smart lock company he co-founded with Swiss industrial designer Yves Béhar, and as managing partner of Founders Den.

[4] Before its acquisition by Darwin Networks, Johnson served as CEO of Interquest,[6][7] a company which installed and operated high speed internet service in many apartment buildings in several U.S. cities including Seattle, San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C.[8] In the late 2000s, he became vice president of marketing and business development of Via Licensing Corp., a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, working on IEEE standards to bring together several patents and establish standard royalty payments for licensing them.

[9] In mid 2010, Johnson co-founded Rethink Books with Jason Illian, Rusty Rueff, and Rick Chatham.

[16] In January 2013, Johnson announced the formation of the Internet of Things Consortium along with several other companies including Logitech, Ouya, and SmartThings.