Ben Lerer is sweating hard and running late–he’s just come from jogging in downtown Austin, and he’s due to meet up with a bunch of top media and ad executives in town for a marketing conference. The ...

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Sometimes New York City feels like a small town. So it is when Ben Lerer arrives to dinner on a recent Tuesday night at Empellón Taqueria in the West Village. Sitting at one table is a girl he met in ...

Christopher Poole, aka Moot, the founder of 4chan and still stealthy Canvas Networks, is now a venture advisor. He just joined Lerer Ventures, the New York City seed fund started by Ken and Ben Lerer.

Following AOL's $315 million buyout of the Huffington Post, CEO Eric Hippeau will join Lerer Ventures, the venture firm founded by the website's founder Kenneth Lerer and his son Benjamin. "We've been ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. New media mogul Ben Lerer is beefing up the finance and business side of Group Nine Media — the ...

Ken Lerer can’t seem to stop getting his hands on money this year. First, Lerer Ventures, the namesake VC firm he runs with his son, closed $25 million from friends and family offices in May to follow ...

There's an opportunity to build up digital media companies through video on social platforms, and Facebook recognizes that, according to Group Nine Media CEO Ben Lerer. Group Nine Media signed a deal ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Kenneth Lerer to newspapers: You blew it. The media executive and Huffington Post co-founder, in a lecture he delivered last ...

Ken Lerer, co-founder of The Huffington Post and chairman of Buzzfeed, explains why he dropped out of college.