Bob Pittman
Bob Pittman is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of iHeartMedia, Inc., a position he has held since 2011. He is best known as the co-founder and programmer who led the team that created MTV, and he previously served as Chief Operating Officer of AOL Time Warner. He is also a founding member of the New York-based private investment firm Pilot Group LLC, which funded companies including DailyCandy, Thrillist, and Zynga. His career in media began in radio at age 15, and he has held CEO roles at Six Flags Theme Parks, Century 21 Real Estate, and MTV Networks.
“Bob Pittman had this thing called the Pilot Group where he would fund newsletter companies, one of them being Daily Candy, which sold for $100 million. I heard about that story and I was like, I'm just going to copy that and do it with business news.”
Source→“Bob Pittman had this thing called the Pilot Group where he would fund newsletter companies, one of them being Daily Candy, which sold for $100 million.”
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