Alan Meckler On How He Became a Media Mogul

The Business Insider CEO and Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget sits down with WebMediaBrands CEO Alan Meckler for this video interview in which Meckler traces the evolution of his entrepreneurial career and some lessons he learned along the way. (Note: Mediabistro is a division of WebMediaBrands.)

Meckler went from pursuing a Ph.D. in American history in the ’70s to starting a microfiche media company targeting university libraries. He discovered the Internet in 1990 (when it still was text-based) and eventually founded Mecklermedia Corp.,

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