Jacob Weisberg — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Executive Chair of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company.
Co-founded Pushkin Industries with Malcolm Gladwell in September 2018.
Author of 'The Bush Tragedy' (2008) and 'In Defense of Government' (1996).
Co-authored 'In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington' (2003) with Robert Rubin, which was a New York Times bestseller and one of Business Week's ten best business books of 2003.
Served as editor-in-chief of The Slate Group and editor of Slate magazine for six years.
Graduated from Yale University in 1986 and attended New College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship.

Biography

Jacob Weisberg is the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company he established in September 2018 with Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell. Pushkin Industries focuses on creating new podcasts, audiobooks, and short-form audio content, including the podcast Revisionist History, which Gladwell hosts.

Weisberg has a distinguished career in journalism, having served as editor-in-chief of The Slate Group, a division of Graham Holdings Company, until 2018.