Jason Pressman is a Managing Director at AZ-VC and Shasta Ventures. Colleagues describe him as "Jason is a role-model VC and an inspirational leader. He has great experience managing teams both large and small, and can relate comfortably with high-level execs as well as summer interns. Jason was the driving force behind our decision to take money from Shasta (although we liked the other partners too!) because he truly is "the entrepreneur's investor"." and "I've had the privilege of working closely with Jason and also maintaining a friendship since we both moved on to other things. He is incredibly sharp, and has an uncanny ability to cut through to the critical levers in any analysis and minimize the noise. Jason is one of the few people I know who can play either investor or operator and be excellent at both roles."