Jason Wolfe

Background

About Jason Wolfe

I’m an Entrepreneur. I grew up in the Milton Hershey School (formerly defined as an 'orphanage or school for disadvantaged kids'), founded by Milton Hershey, one of America's greatest Entrepreneurs. Alumnus of the year for Milton Hershey in 2014, proud moment. In my mid 20's I was a self taught software developer & created the first coupon web site in 1995. Focused on it from Raised $500k in VC from Jupiter Media (JUPM) in and sold MyCoupons to Save.com (then owned by Valassis (NASDAQ: VCI) in I went on to create and build Direct Response Technologies, Inc to 2006) which provided DirectTrack tracking technology. Received expansion capital from the State of North Dakota in 2002, and sold Direct Response to Digital River (NASDAQ: DRIV) in 2006. I focused on GiftCards.com from 2007 to 2016. We had 100+ employees, and the #1 gift card site in the world. We sold over 10 million gift cards, with value of over $1 billion. January 6, 2016, we sold GiftCards.com to Blackhawk Network (HAWK). A public company at that time. I'm now focusing on Wolfe, LLC. Operationally - Wolfe is building GiftYa, PerfectGift.com, GiftCardGranny, & GiveInKind. We have ~200 employees, we plan to improve the gift card which has not changed in 30yr. I’m also former Chairman of the Pittsburgh Technology Council - I was a board member for 9 yr and chairman of the board for 4yr. I was on the board of Family Design Resources (foster care service). I'm currently on the Board of Managers of the Milton Hershey School and on the Board of Directors of the Hershey Trust Company. Recently we were honored by the Business Times as the #1 Fastest Growing company in Pittsburgh. We grew by 741% over 3 years. We are mission focused with a strong emphasis on employee Values and Culture. • Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner for 2011 for W. PA and WV. • Judge for EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2012, 2013 and 2014 for our region. • Top 5 Entrepreneurs in Prepaid in 2010. • Top Workplace award #11 – 2011. • Governor’s impact award 2012. • Finalist for Entrepreneur Magazines Top National Entrepreneur in the USA in 2014. • Winner Pittsburgh Business Ethics Award 2014. • Winner of Business Times CEO Diamond award Pittsburgh 2014. • Winner Tech 50 top CEO in Pittsburgh 2015. • Winner Carnegie Science Center award for top Entrepreneur in Pittsburgh 2018. • Pittsburgh Business times Fastest growing company winner 2022. • Alumni of the Year Milton Hershey School – 2014 • On News shows like Bloomberg, Morning Joe on CNBC, MSNBC + others.