Jaron Waldman

CPO, Investor, Board Member, Independent

Jaron Waldman is Chief Product Officer at Cohere and a lifelong product developer and entrepreneur. Jaron has founded several successful companies including Curbside (acquired by Rakuten Group in 2018) and Placebase, which was acquired by Apple in 2009. During his time at Apple Jaron led the engineering team that built out Apple’s global location services infrastructure supporting user positioning, navigation, and maps. These location frameworks are now used on over 1.8 billion iOS devices. Jaron has extensive experience building developer-facing products that have gained widespread adoption including MapKit and Core Location at Apple, Curbside’s Arrive mobile SDK for iOS and Android, and Placebase’s Pushpin API which pioneered deeply customizable web-based mapping and spatial analytics.