Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having grown up in a cabin in rural northern Minnesota.
Jon earned inclusion in Crain’s inaugural LBGTQ Leaders & Executives list and is the author of Getting Away: 75 Everyday Practices for Finding Balance in Our Always-On World, a guide to unplugging and reconnecting with what really matters on a daily basis. Jon is also an Ali Forney Center Advisory Board member, Point Foundation mentor, and a Harvard Business School Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
He earned his AB and MBA from Harvard University and lives in Brooklyn and Boston with his husband, Michael.
Jon can be particularly helpful with:
- Brick-and-mortar businesses
- Alternative financing strategies
- Consumer brand building
- Mission/vision/values development and adherence
- Co-founder and early stage team building
- DTC marketing
- Go-to-market strategies
- Hospitality startups
- Real estate businesses
- Investor management
- Navigating starting a company while a full time student
Can help with
- Entrepreneurship
- Forming partnerships
- Growth and scaling
- Finance
