Henry Blodget

Henry Blodget is CEO and Editor-In Chief of The Business Insider.

A former top-ranked Wall Street analyst, Henry is the host of Yahoo TechTicker, a Yahoo Finance video show viewed by several million people a month.  He is often a guest on Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other networks.  He has recently contributed to The Atlantic, Slate, Newsweek International, The New York Times, Fortune, New York, the Financial Times, and other publications. He is the author of The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Investing.

From 1994-2001, Henry worked on Wall Street at Prudential Securities, Oppenheimer & Co., and Merrill Lynch.  He ran Merrill's global Internet research practice and was ranked the No. 1 Internet and eCommerce analyst on Wall Street by Institutional Investor and Greenwich Associates. He was later keelhauled by then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over conflicts of interest between research and banking and booted out of the industry.

Henry went to Yale. He was born and raised in New York.

Disclosure: Henry is an investor in Silicon Alley Insider, Inc., the parent company of The Business Insider. He owns options and/or shares in Yahoo, eBay, Baidu, Amazon, Spark Networks, Microsoft, Merrill Lynch, Gartner Group, Time Warner, and other companies, along with various equity and bond index funds. He serves as an advisor to Schmap Ltd. (Hong Kong), PopRule, and Turtlejob (UK).