Jason Scott `69

President GasForFREE

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What are you most passionate about?

I have an insatiable appetite for anything that has to do with business or marketing. It would be fair to say that I simply love creating something out of nothing, which is why GasForFREE’s parent company is called Sofrono. Sofrono is an acronym for “Something From Nothing,” which is essentially what every entrepreneur is doing, when they start a company and build it from the ground up.

Jason Scott has been in many sales positions, starting as a wine distributor in the early 1990s.

“From there, I moved into a career in corporate housing during the dot-com boom,” he said. “I ended up being recruited by one of my Internet clients and became part of their growing business development team. That company ran out of venture capital when those markets dried up with the hand writing on the wall.”

The tech bust followed by the terrorist attacks in 2001 led to a tight market that left Scott unemployed for almost a year.

“I looked at the situation as a wonderful opportunity to detach myself from employers and pursue my entrepreneurial drive to work for myself,” he said. “Taking advantage of my new found freedom, I traveled Europe and the United States, living from savings and seeing the world while I had the chance.”

Since his current business is based on cars and driving, it only seems right that he likes cars, or one car actually – the DeLorean. He has owned 19 of them.

“It is the stainless steel car with gull wing doors from the early 1980s and was the time machine in the ‘Back to the Future’ trilogy,” he said. “Naturally, my geeking out on the DeLorean involved me buying them all over the country and flipping them for a profit.”