Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> March 13, 2000
JONATHAN L. STEINBERG is Chairman, CEO and Founder of Individual
Investor Group, Inc. He attended Manhattan's Dalton School before going
on to the Wharton Business School. He learned about the world of high-
finance at the offices of his father, financier Saul Steinberg. In 1988,
he bought the Penny Stock Journal, a financial newsletter, and changed
the publication's name to Individual Investor and set about expanding
and reshaping its editorial focus. In 1991, Mr. Steinberg decided to
take the Individual Investor Group public. By 1996, he expanded his
publishing business to include Ticker Magazine, a financial trade
publication for brokers and investment advisors. The main thrust of Mr.
Steinberg's focus includes the development of individualinvestor.com, an
interactive Web site, which offers all types of investment advice.
Individualinvestor.com is continuously updated and operates with
different editorial and research staffs from the print publication.
Content from individualinvestor.com is also syndicated to: Yahoo!
Finance, AOL Digital Cities, CNET, Alta Vista and Infonautic's Company
Sleuth. Mr. Steinberg is the author of Midas Investing, a book designed
to help demystify the stock market for ordinary investors. He is a six-
time winner of The Wall Street Journal's Dartboard Competition and has
chosen the three stocks with the highest gains in the history of the
competition. Profile
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