Jed is a fifteen-year veteran of the high technology industry, from his career at Oracle in the late 1980's to his experience launching drugstore.com in the late 1990's and current role as a leading venture capitalist in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jed left Oracle to become Director of Sales at Tribe Computer Works (Tribe became Whistle Communications, a networking hardware and software company that was subsequently acquired by IBM). Jed then co-founded and spent four years at Cybersmith, a retail store chain that showcased the latest advances in information technology and multimedia software.

He then founded drugstore.com, and served on its board of directors with John Doerr, Brook Byers, Peter Neupert, Howard Schultz and Jeff Bezos. Jed is currently the President and Managing Partner of Catamount Ventures an early stage technology fund.
Jed has been mentioned a "Web visionary" by MSNBC, "One to Watch" by The Industry Standard, and one of the top forty "most influential people on the Internet in Boston" by the Improper Bostonian.

An advisor to many private companies, Jed currently serves on the board of directors of Bocada Software, Liquid Engines, Inc., Sapias, Inc., Siterra Corporation, Linden Lab, Inc. Jed also has served on the board of several education and non-profit institutions, including the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College, Shackleton Schools, the Interactive Mathematics Program, and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.