Henry Blodget is cofounder and Executive Chair of the Board of Insider Inc. He is also an occasional columnist (see below).
Business Insider is a global journalism organization with more than 700 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 Inc., 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 owner 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."
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.
Disclosure: Henry believes that frequent trading is a lousy investment strategy for individual investors. He primarily invests in a portfolio of low-cost, tax-efficient index funds. This said, as a legacy of his days as a stock analyst, Henry also has positions in stocks like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and other companies. Henry is also an investor in Business Insider.
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Tech
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Business Insider cofounder Henry Blodget is our work-advice columnist, offering career advice informed by decades of successes and failures at work.
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