Jonathan was born in a frozen land north of America, and began his career as a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan holds an Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science from McMaster University, which he received after flunking out of engineering school.
Jonathan is a member of the advisory board of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, a top-rated mentor at The Founder Institute, a mentor in Steve Blank's LeanLaunchPad entrepreneurship classes at Stanford and Berkeley/Columbia, an investor in the business that launched Venture Hacks and AngelList, and has been extensively involved in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community for over ten years, including past roles such as co-chair of the SDForum Venture Finance SIG, moderator of the SVASE CTO Forum, and a judge for the Stanford Entrepreneur's Challenge business plan contest, the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, the Stanford-Berkeley Innovators' Challenge, the Intel Challenge, and Start-Up Chile.