Full Name
Henry Blodget
Job Title
Co-founder & CEO
Company
Insider
Speaker Bio
Henry Blodget is co-founder and CEO of Insider.
Insider publishes Business Insider, Insider, and other publications and is a global journalism organization with more than 600 staff members and offices and affiliates in more than 17 countries. Insider's publications and programming reach more than 300 million people worldwide each month.
Henry started Insider, then called "Silicon Alley Insider," in the loading dock of another New York-based startup in 2007. He served as CEO and Editor in Chief until 2017. Insider was initially funded by RRE Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Jeff Bezos, and other investors. Insider Inc. is now owned by Axel Springer, the leading digital publisher in Europe.
A former top-ranked Wall Street analyst, Henry is often a guest on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other networks. He has contributed to The Atlantic, Slate, The New York Times, Fortune, New York, The Financial Times, and other publications. He has written extensively about technology and investing and is the author of "The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Investing." He is a member of the International Media Council of the World Economic Forum.
During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Henry was a top-ranked Wall Street internet analyst. He was later keelhauled by then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over conflicts of interest between the research and banking divisions of brokerage firms.
Henry received a B.A. from Yale University. He was born in New York.
Insider publishes Business Insider, Insider, and other publications and is a global journalism organization with more than 600 staff members and offices and affiliates in more than 17 countries. Insider's publications and programming reach more than 300 million people worldwide each month.
Henry started Insider, then called "Silicon Alley Insider," in the loading dock of another New York-based startup in 2007. He served as CEO and Editor in Chief until 2017. Insider was initially funded by RRE Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, Jeff Bezos, and other investors. Insider Inc. is now owned by Axel Springer, the leading digital publisher in Europe.
A former top-ranked Wall Street analyst, Henry is often a guest on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other networks. He has contributed to The Atlantic, Slate, The New York Times, Fortune, New York, The Financial Times, and other publications. He has written extensively about technology and investing and is the author of "The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Investing." He is a member of the International Media Council of the World Economic Forum.
During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Henry was a top-ranked Wall Street internet analyst. He was later keelhauled by then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over conflicts of interest between the research and banking divisions of brokerage firms.
Henry received a B.A. from Yale University. He was born in New York.
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