Jake (@jakemgold) is the President of 10up, a full service web agency that imagines, builds, and grows first class websites. 10up focuses on outstanding publisher experiences and high scale implementation, with full time designers, engineers, strategists, and infrastructure experts. Clients range from major publishers like TechCrunch, Time Inc and Consumer Reports, to media companies like NBC Universal Sports, to retail giants like Juicy Couture, to universities like Bates College and Brown. Jake built 10up from a 1 man agency with a couple of clients to over 20 employees and dozens of brand name customers in its first 2 years. Today, 10up is widely recognized as one of the top WordPress agencies in the world.
Between leading the charge at 10up, Jake has been a writer and expert reviewer for Smashing Magazine and taught WordPress development at Boston University. Jake has spoken at WordCamps around the country, including Chicago, New York, Orlando, Phoenix, and Miami. He helped organize the first WordCamp Boston in 2010 and founded Providence and Sacramento Meetups.
Jake is a core contributor to WordPress and maintains some of the highest rated plug-ins on the official repository. Cumulatively, they have been downloaded over 350,000 times.
