Jason Toff

About

My name is Jason Toff and I'm a Partner at Area 120, a startup accelerator inside Google. Prior roles include PM Director at Twitter, GM at Vine, PM at YouTube, and marketing lead for Gmail.

Outside of work, sit on the board for PALS Programs, a non-profit I co-founded in 2004 that creates summer camps and programs for young adults with Down syndrome. In general, I love creating things, working with nice people, and spending time with my family.

In the news

• First Round Taps Active Operators For 'Product Co-Op' Angel Group Experiment (Forbes, 2017)

• Google's new 'Poly' service makes it easier to build VR and AR apps (Mashable, 2017)

• Poly Is Google’s Foundation For Building Virtual Worlds (UploadVR, 2017)

• Google is launching an AR and VR object library called Poly (The Verge, 2017)

• Google is becoming the Adobe of VR (Fast Co Design, 2017)

• Vine boss leaves Twitter to join Google (The Verge, 2016)

• Telling a Good Story Is Everything, and 25 Other Lessons I Learned as GM of Vine (NY Observer, 2016)

• Silicon Alley 100: Meet the most inspiring and influential people in New York tech (Business Insider, 2015)

• Why Vine Is Betting on Entertainment and Leaving Social Behind (ReCode, 2015)

• How do you erase the taboo of paternity leave? These companies have an idea. (Washington Post, 2015)

• Vine rings in its second year by hitting 1.5 billion daily loops (GigaOM, 2015)

• First Japan visit Vine team Q&A: Japanese users grew three times in three months (TechCrunch 2014)

• Vine now lets friends share video and text messages (CNET, 2013)

• Meet Jason Toff, a product manager at YouTube in San Bruno (Google, 2013)

• Free Music for Your YouTube Videos (YouTube Blog, 2013)

• Spotlight: Jason Toff, Product Manager at Google & co-founder of PALS (SendHub, 2012)

• YouTube Brings Stabilization to Wobbly Videos With New Editing Tool (BusinessInsider, 2011)

• Millions using YouTube Editor to enhance videos after posting (GigaOM, 2011)

• YouTube Gets New Editing Tools Today (New York Times, 2011)

• YouTube Introduces Video Editing Feature (Mashable, 2011)

• Google Rolls Out YouTube Creative Commons Licenses (Wired, 2011)

• A Tech 'Care Package' for Mom and Dad (AARP Bulletin, 2011)

• Send Someone You Love the Gift of Google Tech Support (AllThingsD, 2010)

• Inside Google's Mysterious Voice Pods, Five Are Ready For Action (TechCrunch, 2010)

• Google Launches Chrome Beta for Adventurous Browser Users (TechNewsWorld, 2009)

• What is a browser? (Google Blog, 2009)

• Bottoms up: Beverage-order Web site saves dollars, trips to Wawa (Daily Pennsylvanian, 2007)

• Camp PALS interview (Comcast News, 2007)

• Custom Buttons interview (ABC News, 2006)