Rob Fishman

Rob Fishman
Born	38–39 Scarsdale, New York
Alma mater	Cornell University
Occupation	Entrepreneur writer

Rob Fishman is an American entrepreneur and writer.

In 2013, he co-founded Niche, a marketing company that was acquired by Twitter in 2015 for $50 million. In its first year of operations, Niche earned $1 million in revenue. As part of Twitter, Niche has become a "significant revenue driver" for the social network.

Fishman's previous company was sold to BuzzFeed in 2013. The acquisition was BuzzFeed's first.

In 2015, Fishman was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list. Fishman previously worked at the Huffington Post as its first social media editor. He is a contributing editor for BuzzFeed, and has written for New York Magazine, Slate, Re/code, and numerous other outlets. Fishman's coverage of the Cornell gorge suicides in 2010 for The Huffington Post gained widespread attention. In 2013, a story he wrote for BuzzFeed, claiming that "the social media editor is dead," led to a firestorm from new media journalists.

Fishman is from Scarsdale, New York, and is a graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the nephew of 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt and Marilyn Berger.

Further reading

• New York Magazine: Rob Fishman
• The Growing Clout of the Selfie Generation
• The New York Times: Stars of Instagram and Vine Get Advertising Deals
• The New Yorker: Hollywood and Vine
• The New York Times: Turning Likes Into a Career
• The New York Times: Taking a Chance on Love, and Algorithms
• MSNBC: HuffPost's Rob Fishman Discusses Strange Social Networks