Bio
James Altucher
James Altucher has built and sold 3 businesses. And maybe failed at 16 others. He’s traded successfully for several hedge funds and ran a fund of hedge funds which he was fortunate enough to unwind right before the housing collapse. He makes angel investments with a group of other investors through Formula Capital. He’s written seven books, has written for the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. He blogs at jamesaltucher.com where he confesses most of his sins and hopes that people forgive him.
His latest book, I Was Blind But Now I See was an Amazon bestseller, beating out Joel Osteen’s latest book, for fifteen seconds. But everyone in this audience gets it for free. He receives, on average, one death threat a week. He doesn’t have a driver’s license but in his pocket right now are the keys to his car. He has written about why nobody should ever buy a home but he owns a home. He has written why nobody should ever go to college but he went to college. He’s bullish on the stock market but advises people to never own stocks. He thinks Shakespeare is in the bottom 10% of all writers and should not be studied in school.
Henry Blodget
Henry Blodget is the CEO and Editor of The Business Insider, an online business media company based in New York. Blodget is also a host of Yahoo's TechTicker, an online finance show watched by more than 1 million people a month, and a contributor to Bloomberg TV.
He frequently contributes to MSNBC, NPR, The Atlantic, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and other organizations.
Josh Brown
Joshua Brown is a New York City-based financial advisor at Fusion Analytics. Brown helps people invest and manage portfolios. Brown's clients range from individuals to corporations to retirement plans to charitable foundations.
Brown is also a regular contributor to: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNNMoney, Christian Science Monitor, The Business Insider and CNBC. Brown is also the creator of Things Apple is Worth More Than which began as a joke but then the The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly and TIME Magazine started talking about it.
Howard Lindzon
Howard Lindzon is co-founder and CEO of StockTwits – a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. StockTwits was recently named “one of the top 10 most innovative companies in web” by FastCompany and one of the “50 best websites” by Time magazine.
Mr. Lindzon has more than twenty years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Howard continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.
He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. in 2007. He is an active angel with many success angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).
Mr. Lindzon received an MBA at Arizona State University and an MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management.
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