About Us

Hey, we're annabel and jason

How we got here

We met running a private membership community for global leaders. During our tenure, we programmed and moderated hundreds of conversations on topics ranging from trade policy to psychedelics, and hosted events around the world. An observation kept bubbling up: the heartbeat of the community wasn’t debates about AI, it was recurring meetings of 8-10 community members discussing more personal themes like launching new businesses, writing books, or navigating grief.

Why we started cohort
We left because we had conviction that more people could benefit from the kinds of conversations we were creating. But instead of jumping right into building a space for these conversations, we spent a year helping communities of all kinds (VC funds, nonprofits, universities, etc.) solve their biggest challenges. We learned what really makes communities tick and stick.

Cohort is a product of all of those experiences, but also of our own skepticism about the ballooning coaching market, the ever-growing list of optimization influencers, and the idea that talking more about yourself in the context of a one-sided relationship is all that useful.

We’re bullish on reciprocity, on diversity of perspectives, and on learning from other people who are also in the arena.
A woman looking at her phone while sitting relaxed at a desk working from home in Los Angeles.

So who are we when we’re not building Cohort?

These days, we spend most of our time trying to make Cohort great for our members, but here are some other things we’re enthusiastic about (we’re also bullish on enthusiasm).

Meet Annabel

Enthusiastic about: Character-driven fiction, live music (good or bad), bagels (only good), her 2017 Subaru Forester, the natural wonders of the American West, her siblings, cultural criticism, filthy martinis, geographic determinism, telling anyone who will listen that “all politics is local,” telling anyone (listening or not) about the miracle that is a Jetboil.

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Meet Jason

Enthusiastic about: The Rest is History, golden retrievers (well, mainly his), the columns of Janan Ganesh and Marina Hyde, his second-hand Weber grill, trying to ski uphill, wine (not in a pretentious way), French (in a pretentious way), Bonnaroo, The Last Samurai (the Helen DeWitt novel, not the Tom Cruise film), Bay Cities’ Godmother sandwich.

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