Jon Steinberg
Jon Steinberg is the former President and COO of website BuzzFeed. In early 2016, he founded Cheddar Inc., a new media company covering tech news and culture, and serves as its CEO.[1] In September 2016, Cheddar received $10 million in funding from Comcast and other investors.[2]
Cheddar is a live and on demand video news network, and broadcasts weekdays from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Marketsite, and the Flatiron Building. By mid-2016, the company had added a CheddarLife program, and was broadcasting on Facebook Live, Roku and SiriusXM.[not verified in body]
In addition to co-hosting the original Cheddar program with business journalist Kristen Scholer, Steinberg sits on the board of Bustle.com and is an advisor to The Skimm and Taboola.[not verified in body]
Early life[]
Steinberg's mother, Renee, is a teacher at a New York private School and his father, Richard, is a doctor turned real estate broker.[3] He attended the Collegiate School and was interested in computers from an early age. When he was 15 years old, he was accepted into the Walt Disney Imagineering summer intern program.[4] He graduated with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1999 after completing an 122-page-long senior thesis titled "The New American Citizen: The Potential for the Internet to Re-Engage Americans in Civic and Political Life."[5] He also holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University.[6]
Career[]
In May 2010, Steinberg joined Buzzfeed while it was still a 15-person company.[7] He has played a role in helping to develop Buzzfeed's business model, which is rooted in content marketing.[8]
Prior to Buzzfeed, Jon was strategic partner development manager on Google’s small medium business partnerships team, executive in residence at Polaris Venture Partners, and founded iBuilding, a commercial real estate software company.[citation needed]
In 2012, Steinberg was named an Ad Age Media Maven.[9]
In 2013, he joined the board of Legal Mobile App startup, Shake.[10][11]
Prior to founding Cheddar, Jon was Chief Executive Officer of DailyMail.com North America.[12]
Personal life[]
As of 2013 Steinberg lived in the Upper East Side of New York City with his wife, Jill, and his children, Cooper and Edie.[6]
References[]
- ^ Business Insider, "Former BuzzFeed president Jon Steinberg launches Cheddar, a CNBC for millennials, with $3 million in funding" Feb 19, 2016
- ^ Variety, "Comcast Invests in Digital Finance-News Startup Cheddar, Which Banks $10 Million in Funding" Sept 6, 2016
- ^ "Raising Buzzfeed’s Jon Steinberg". Business News Daily. Oct 23, 2013
- ^ Startup Grind, "Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed talks about the Buzz" Jun 24, 2013
- ^ Steinberg, Jonathan (1999). "The New American Citizen: The Potential for the Internet to Re-Engage Americans in Civic and Political Life". Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^ Jump up to: a b "on Steinberg". We Are NY Tech. September 12, 2013
- ^ Business Insider, "Ex-Googler Jon Steinberg Joins NYC Startup BuzzFeed" May 20, 2010
- ^ New Tech City, "Buzzfeed COO Jon Steinberg on Social Marketing" March 19, 2013
- ^ "Special Report Media Mavens 2012". Ad Age. Jan 31, 2011
- ^ Forbes, "Shake On It: New App Puts Legally Binding Documents At Your Fingertips" Sept 12, 2013
- ^ "Lessons For Incubating A Company". Business Insider. September 12, 2013.
- ^ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/buzzfeed-coo-jon-steinberg-named-712109
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- Living people
- Google employees
- Columbia Business School alumni
- Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- American technology chief executives
- Collegiate School (New York) alumni