Jason Tennenhouse
I believe any problem can be solved with some creativity and hard work. We call this innovation, and everyone has the potential to make the world around them a better place…When I speak I like to inspire others to reframe their thinking to find solutions. Together, we can make effective change.
Jason Tennenhouse is the founder of 10 IN HOUSE Strategy & Design and an operator-strategist with twenty-five years across the rare quadrant of operator, designer, strategist, and writer. Eight companies founded. Three accelerators built. More than five hundred ventures coached to a combined nine-figure outcome.
OVERVIEW
25 years in entrepreneurial strategy and design across the US and Europe.
8x founder. Creator of three business accelerators. Helped more than 500 ventures start, grow, and collectively achieve nine-figure outcomes.
$300M+ generated for clients (~50x ROI on fees). $1B+ in cumulative impact. $700M+ raised by portfolio companies through operating equity. 8,000+ direct jobs created across the combined accelerator network.
Operating equity through a Forbes Top-25 AgTech exit to a billion-dollar acquirer, a $240M Brazilian AgTech entering the US market, and a consumer goods company that grew from $5M to $15M in revenue under his strategic direction.
International design awards and multiple design and engineering patents.
2x author with a third book in progress on systematic humanity at scale. Former Firefighter, HAZMAT Technician, NCAA First Responder, and DHS Incident Commander.
CAREER
Jason earned his academic degrees from Purdue University in Industrial Design, Psychology, Business, and Philosophy, and co-designed the school's interdisciplinary Entrepreneurial Industrial Design Graduate program. He went on to design exhibits at The Indianapolis Children's Museum, the largest of its kind in the world, then joined a creative Think Tank in Chicago and the R&D team of the world's third-largest toy company as head of concept design, where one of his Godzilla designs sold half a million units globally.
He was invited to Google's exclusive Team Acme, a 25-person stealth innovation team translating twenty-year-horizon concepts in AI, robotics, and transportation into near-term products. He served in the West Wing of The White House under the Obama administration, writing policy for the then-nascent Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Jason co-founded the Purdue Foundry's FoundryX commercialization initiative, served as Entrepreneur In Residence at the Purdue Research Foundation, and currently serves as VP of Strategy & Design at the Wabash Heartland Innovation Network, a $40M Lilly Endowment initiative that became the country's largest rural IoT network and generated $250M in regional economic value. He has founded eight companies, built three accelerators from scratch, and raised and managed a venture fund with portfolio investments in pancreatic cancer diagnostics, advanced air mobility, drone manufacturing for public safety, and AgTech.
SPEAKING AND TEACHING
Jason has keynoted TEDx Purdue, delivered a distance lecture broadcast on five continents, and taught for years inside three of Purdue's most elite programs: the country's #1-ranked Mechanical Engineering department, the Princeton Review #18-ranked Certificate in Entrepreneurship, and Purdue Polytechnic. He has guest-instructed all 700 introductory students in the largest School of Technology in the country and trained disabled Veterans entering entrepreneurship. He is a Fulbright Specialist invitee to India and a member of the National Speakers Association.
PERSONAL
Jason played collegiate lacrosse, holds his Advanced SCUBA certification, and lives in Carmel, Indiana with his wife and three daughters.
Jason Tennenhouse is the founder of 10 IN HOUSE Strategy & Design and an operator-strategist with twenty-five years across the rare quadrant of operator, designer, strategist, and writer. Eight companies founded. Three accelerators built. More than five hundred ventures coached to a combined nine-figure outcome.
OVERVIEW
25 years in entrepreneurial strategy and design across the US and Europe.
8x founder. Creator of three business accelerators. Helped more than 500 ventures start, grow, and collectively achieve nine-figure outcomes.
$300M+ generated for clients (~50x ROI on fees). $1B+ in cumulative impact. $700M+ raised by portfolio companies through operating equity. 8,000+ direct jobs created across the combined accelerator network.
Operating equity through a Forbes Top-25 AgTech exit to a billion-dollar acquirer, a $240M Brazilian AgTech entering the US market, and a consumer goods company that grew from $5M to $15M in revenue under his strategic direction.
International design awards and multiple design and engineering patents.
2x author with a third book in progress on systematic humanity at scale. Former Firefighter, HAZMAT Technician, NCAA First Responder, and DHS Incident Commander.
CAREER
Jason earned his academic degrees from Purdue University in Industrial Design, Psychology, Business, and Philosophy, and co-designed the school's interdisciplinary Entrepreneurial Industrial Design Graduate program. He went on to design exhibits at The Indianapolis Children's Museum, the largest of its kind in the world, then joined a creative Think Tank in Chicago and the R&D team of the world's third-largest toy company as head of concept design, where one of his Godzilla designs sold half a million units globally.
He was invited to Google's exclusive Team Acme, a 25-person stealth innovation team translating twenty-year-horizon concepts in AI, robotics, and transportation into near-term products. He served in the West Wing of The White House under the Obama administration, writing policy for the then-nascent Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Jason co-founded the Purdue Foundry's FoundryX commercialization initiative, served as Entrepreneur In Residence at the Purdue Research Foundation, and currently serves as VP of Strategy & Design at the Wabash Heartland Innovation Network, a $40M Lilly Endowment initiative that became the country's largest rural IoT network and generated $250M in regional economic value. He has founded eight companies, built three accelerators from scratch, and raised and managed a venture fund with portfolio investments in pancreatic cancer diagnostics, advanced air mobility, drone manufacturing for public safety, and AgTech.
SPEAKING AND TEACHING
Jason has keynoted TEDx Purdue, delivered a distance lecture broadcast on five continents, and taught for years inside three of Purdue's most elite programs: the country's #1-ranked Mechanical Engineering department, the Princeton Review #18-ranked Certificate in Entrepreneurship, and Purdue Polytechnic. He has guest-instructed all 700 introductory students in the largest School of Technology in the country and trained disabled Veterans entering entrepreneurship. He is a Fulbright Specialist invitee to India and a member of the National Speakers Association.
PERSONAL
Jason played collegiate lacrosse, holds his Advanced SCUBA certification, and lives in Carmel, Indiana with his wife and three daughters.
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