Eric Hippeau
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Eric Hippeau is the Chief Executive Officer of The Huffington Post, a leading social news and opinion site which in five years has become an influential media brand -- "The Internet Newspaper." Hippeau joined HuffPost in June 2009.

Prior to joining HuffPost, Hippeau was managing partner at Softbank Capital, a New York and Boston-based venture capital fund specializing in early stage investments in technology and digital media. Hippeau joined Softbank Capital in 2000 from Ziff-Davis, Inc., where he was Chairman and CEO. During his career at Ziff-Davis, Hippeau was early to recognize the growth potential of online media. Under his stewardship, ZDNet became one of the few successful examples of a strong online business model evolving from traditional magazine content, and he was instrumental in SoftBank’s first investment in Yahoo! in 1995. Hippeau was also responsible for founding ZDTV, a cable channel dedicated to technology and the Internet. Hippeau serves on the boards of several public and private companies, including Yahoo!, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Thumbplay, The Huffington Post, and BuddyMedia.

Hippeau graduated from the Lycee Francais de Londres and attended the Sorbonne University.

Blog Entries by Eric Hippeau

Time to Scale Up, NYC!

Posted December 6, 2010 | 13:00:00 (EST)

New York City is taking a giant step forward in strengthening and diversifying its economic base for decades to come. By providing seasoned mentors to growing companies and start-ups, the NYC Economic Development Corporation Venture Fellows program, launched today, gives innovative entrepreneurs a pivotal leg up...

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"Too Big To Fail" Is Un-American

Posted May 5, 2009 | 10:37:44 (EST)

The Too Big To Fail Doctrine is cited today as the reason for bailing out our financial system and our auto industry. Hundreds of billions of public dollars have been sunk in this endeavor so far, with little sign that it has done more than just postpone the inevitable. In...

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Why Venture Capital is Key to Our Economic Recovery

Posted January 25, 2009 | 22:00:00 (EST)

As we continue to reel from the unthinkable (as in "what were we thinking?") excesses of gorging on huge amounts of unsecured debt throughout our economy, we need to think clearly about the financial tools that will allow us to recover our footing, grow our economy and create well-paid sustainable...

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