James Ledbetter

Chief Content Officer, Clarim Media

James Ledbetter is the Chief Content Officer of Clarim Media, and editor and publisher of FIN, an e-mail newsletter devoted to fintech. He is the former editor-in-chief of Inc. magazine and Inc.com, and former Head of Content at Sequoia Capital. He has also worked on staff at Slate, Reuters, TIME, and The Village Voice. He is the author or editor of six books including, most recently, One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries. His writing on politics, business and media has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Quartz, The American Prospect, The Industry Standard, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic and dozens of other publications. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.