Jono Bacon

CEO of Stateshift. GTM for technical people who hate being marketed at. 📓 Author ‘People Powered’ by Harper Collins. Not related to Kevin 🥓.

📍 Walnut Creek, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor and Advisor
Aug 2020
Commsor enables companies to activate their network (advisors, investors, partners, customers, influencers, etc) to drive revenue. Effectively we do that three ways: 1. Add a warm intro check for the sales teams. Before they make that cold call, we help them check if someone can open that door for them. 2. Connect your prospects with customers they already know, but more importantly already trust. 3. Enable you to build proper B2B referral programs. None of that B2C "click my link and I get a referral cut" stuff Did you know our logo is a Brontosaurus and that they were so large that scientists still arent fully sure how they would have moved under their own weight? 🦕
Investor
Aug 2020
Coda started in 2014 with a simple observation: In a world full of pre-built tools and applications, why do documents and spreadsheets seem to run the world? The founding Coda team crossed paths at Google, YouTube, and Microsoft, where they saw their teams stretch the limits of what spreadsheets and documents can do. Then in 2014, they banded together to build the doc they always wanted. One that erased the boundaries between words and data. And where everyone could work together, in their own way, off the same data. Coda. Its a new day for docs. Learn more at https://coda.io.
Investor
Dec 2016
Mautic is the worlds only open marketing cloud. Recently acquired by Acquia, Mautic expands Acquias vision to form an alternative to expensive, closed, stagnant marketing clouds and offer the industrys first Open Digital Experience Platform. Customers can now automate, personalize, and measure the entire customer lifecycle – across every channel, at every stage, and at every interaction.
Experience · 5 entries
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2022
Founder and CEO
Aug 2022
The Community Leadership Core is an accelerator led by Jono Bacon that transforms the way you engage and lead your communities. It equips community/devrel leaders with critical skills, knowledge, and resources to build thriving, engaging communities that deliver amazing results, for both your community members and your business. We dont merely provide hands-on, practical coaching and training; we have a comprehensive framework for week-to-week community engagement and growth, complete with quarterly roadmaps tailored to your business needs. This is delivered with action-focused cycles for continuous improvement, consistent mentoring, and shipping real, tangible results and progress. The outcome? More exciting and engaged communities, broader growth, more effective community leadership, clearer team/business alignment, and crisp business benefits. TESTIMONIALS INCLUDE: "Communities are the future of business, technology, and collaboration. Jono Bacon’s experience, approach, and candor is critical reading for harnessing this future." -- Jim Zemlin, Executive Director at The Linux Foundation “Working with Jono and the Community Leadership Core is a key part of our company strategy. I’ve never seen anything as structured, comprehensive, immersive or effective." -- Adam Christian, CEO of Stateful "If you want to tap into the power that communities can bring to businesses and teams, there is no greater expert than Jono Bacon.” -- Nat Friedman, prev. CEO of GitHub "The Community Leadership Core has been immensely valuable to me, providing me with a plethora of great ideas and an excellent framework for engaging with my community right from the outset." -- Revital Bartletz, Head of Community at Monada "Jonos Community Leadership Core has been a transformative experience, equipping me with the skills needed to make a real difference in my community." -- Kris Ledal, Head of Developer Relations at Weavy
2020
Investor and Advisor
Aug 2020
Commsor enables companies to activate their network (advisors, investors, partners, customers, influencers, etc) to drive revenue. Effectively we do that three ways: 1. Add a warm intro check for the sales teams. Before they make that cold call, we help them check if someone can open that door for them. 2. Connect your prospects with customers they already know, but more importantly already trust. 3. Enable you to build proper B2B referral programs. None of that B2C "click my link and I get a referral cut" stuff Did you know our logo is a Brontosaurus and that they were so large that scientists still arent fully sure how they would have moved under their own weight? 🦕
Investor
Aug 2020
Coda started in 2014 with a simple observation: In a world full of pre-built tools and applications, why do documents and spreadsheets seem to run the world? The founding Coda team crossed paths at Google, YouTube, and Microsoft, where they saw their teams stretch the limits of what spreadsheets and documents can do. Then in 2014, they banded together to build the doc they always wanted. One that erased the boundaries between words and data. And where everyone could work together, in their own way, off the same data. Coda. Its a new day for docs. Learn more at https://coda.io.
2016
Investor
Dec 2016
Mautic is the worlds only open marketing cloud. Recently acquired by Acquia, Mautic expands Acquias vision to form an alternative to expensive, closed, stagnant marketing clouds and offer the industrys first Open Digital Experience Platform. Customers can now automate, personalize, and measure the entire customer lifecycle – across every channel, at every stage, and at every interaction.
2009
Jono Bacon Consulting
Founder
Sep 2009
Investment activity
2016–2020 · 3 investments
2016120202
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