Rob Fishman

Fishman was born on March 31, 1986, in Scarsdale, New York. He is the great-nephew of 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt and Marilyn Berger.^[1]

He graduated from Cornell University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.^[2]

In 2013, Fishman's first company was sold to BuzzFeed,^[3] BuzzFeed's first acquisition.^[4] Subsequently, in 2013, Fishman co-founded Niche, a marketing company that was acquired by Twitter in 2015 for $50 million.^[5] In its first year of operations, Niche earned $1 million in revenue.^[6] As part of Twitter, Niche has become a "significant revenue driver" for the social network.^[7] In November 2016, Fortune reported that Fishman had confirmed his departure from Twitter.^[8]

Fishman worked as social media editor for The Huffington Post, contributing editor for BuzzFeed, and has written for Slate, New York, and The Daily Beast.^[9][10] Fishman's coverage of the Cornell gorge suicides in 2010 for The Huffington Post gained widespread attention.^[11] In 2013, a story he wrote for BuzzFeed, claiming that "the social media editor is dead," led to a firestorm from new media journalists.^{[12][13][page needed][14][15]}

In 2015, Fishman was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list.^[16] In 2016, he produced Alexander IRL, a teen comedy film starring Nathan Kress that was acquired by YouTube Red.^[17]

In 2017, Fishman founded Brat TV, a video production startup in Los Angeles.^[18]