Jared Fliesler

Jared grew up in Saint Louis， Missouri where he developed a fascination with computers at a young age. Armed with an AOL login （albeit at 9.6k bps）， he would spend hours exploring the keyword-based landscape of the internet that AOL had created. Just a few years later， internet speeds had increased 100x and the world wide web reached way beyond AOL. Jared nearly lived on the internet: making money surfing the web with AllAdvantage and attempting to launch a website building business from his bedroom.

Highly motivated， Jared enrolled at Saint Louis University while still in high school， using university-level courses to complete his final high school requirements. Once he cleared graduation from Crossroads College Preparatory School and finished his freshman year at Saint Louis University， he was able to move closer to the epicenter of tech. Jared transferred to The University of San Francisco where he helped start the first Business Honors Cohort program and became President of the American Marketing Association. Jared completed his B.S.B.A in Marketing and graduated at the top of his class， summa cum laude， in 2006.

But before his time ended at USF， he discovered a then-nascent Yelp， and started writing restaurant reviews prodigiously （Jared is a true foodie）. He quickly became a member of the “Yelp Elite.” Through one of the company’s famed meet-ups， Jared made a connection that would change the course of his career. He was introduced to and befriended by one of Yelp’s board members， Keith Rabois. It was Keith who encouraged Jared to think about working in start-ups， giving Jared advice that ended up being among the best in his life.

After a stint in business development for a real estate investment company， Jared joined his mentor at a rapidly growing company called Slide as a Business Development Manager. He quickly rose up the ranks in business and then product. Jared focused on growing Slide’s reach to more than 155M uniques/mo. He also set up partnerships and integrations with t