Henry Blodget is cofounder, CEO, and Editorial Director of Insider Inc. Insider publishes "Business Insider," "INSIDER," and other publications. Insider's publications reach more than 200 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. Axel Springer, the leading digital publisher in Europe, bought the company in 2015. Henry is often a guest on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. 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 and Technology Pioneers selection committee 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.