Gideon Stein

Gideon Stein (born December 19, 1971, in Washington, DC) is an entrepreneur and education activist. He is the CEO of Write Label[1][2] (formerly Comedywire), a crowd-sourced platform for short-form writing, President of The Moriah Fund,[3] treasurer of Chalkbeat and a member of the board of directors of textbook solutions company, Slader,[4] New Classrooms,[5] and Narrative 4.[6] He is the former vice chairman of the board of Success Academy Charter Schools, the high performing charter management organization in New York City.

Education

Stein graduated with honors from Wesleyan University with a degree in Economics and History. He attended St Edmund Hall at Oxford University as a Visiting Scholar in Development Economics and European History.

Career

Stein is the CEO of Write Label, a crowd-sourced platform for short-form writing. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of LightSail Education, an adaptive literacy solution for K-12.[7] Stein was the founder, chairman and CEO of Omnipod, Inc.,[8]a leading on-demand provider of real-time messaging to the enterprise market, until its sale in 2005 to MessageLabs Group, Ltd.,[9] one of the world’s largest private software companies (and now a division of Symantec). Stein was a founding partner of MR Ventures, a private investment firm with a portfolio of companies concentrated in media, commerce and software. Stein also served on the board of directors of the Real Silk Investment Company,[10] a publicly traded regulated investment company, until its sale to Lord Abbett Affiliated Funds.[11]

Philanthropy

In May 2019, Stein became the President of his family foundation, The Moriah Fund.[12] Stein is a board member of New Classrooms[13] as well serving as treasurer of Chalkbeat, a leading non-profit education news outlet for New York City, Denver, Indianapolis, Memphis, Chicago, Newark and Detroit.[14] He serves on the board of directors of Narrative 4,[15] a global empathy building organization, and University Prep Public Schools.[16]

gollark: I think the biggest issue is that any system doing it is either going to have a central authority or some sort of web-of-trust-y federated model, and it might be possible for some groups to just completely discard votes from people they don't like.
gollark: Decentralized vote counting is... nontrivial, but probably possible.
gollark: You *can* do direct democracy.
gollark: Distributed systems design is hard even when you can trust all the things involved.
gollark: Approximately. I think you need some sort of central resolution for *some* things.

References
  1. https://www.writelabel.com/
  2. https://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Leading+Creative+Writing+Service+Provider+Comedywire+Announces+Rebranding+to+Write+Label/15616968.html
  3. http://moriahfund.org/
  4. https://www.slader.com/
  5. https://www.newclassrooms.org/about/leadership/
  6. https://narrative4.com/
  7. http://www.lightsailed.com
  8. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/38215.html?wlc=1267075919
  9. "MessageLabs To Acquire Omnipod." 2005, November 2. Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20100928190256/http://www.messagelabs.com/resources/press/126
  10. http://www.secinfo.com/d2gFa.7r.htm
  11. http://www.secinfo.com/d2Kc.5e.htm
  12. http://moriahfund.org/
  13. http://newclassrooms.org/team.html
  14. http://www.chalkbeat.org/about/board-of-directors/
  15. https://narrative4.com/about/family/
  16. http://upchs.org/
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