Jon Steinberg

Jon Steinberg is the former President and COO of website BuzzFeed. In early 2016, he founded Cheddar Inc., a new media company covering tech news and culture, and serves as its CEO. In September 2016, Cheddar received $10 million in funding from Comcast and other investors. Cheddar is a live and on demand video news network, and broadcasts weekdays from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Marketsite, and the Flatiron Building. By mid-2016, the company had added a CheddarLife program, and was broadcasting on Facebook Live, Roku and SiriusXM. In addition to co-hosting the original Cheddar program with business journalist Kristen Scholer, Steinberg sits on the board of Bustle.com and is an advisor to The Skimm and Taboola. 2Early life Steinberg's mother, Renee, is a teacher at a New York private School and his father, Jon, is a doctor turned real estate broker. He attended the Collegiate School and was interested in computers from an early age. When he was 15 years old, he was accepted into the Walt Disney Imagineering summer intern program. He is a graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and holds an MBA from Columbia University. 2Career In May 2010, Steinberg joined Buzzfeed while it was still a 15-person company. He has played a role in helping to develop Buzzfeed's business model, which is rooted in content marketin