While attending Briarcliff High School in 1985, Lane wrote an article for the New York Times detailing his ordeal of getting tickets for a Bruce Springsteen concert. He served as co-editor of his high school's newspaper during this time.[10]
Career
Lane edited his college newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian at the University of Pennsylvania[where?] before interning with The Wall Street Journal.[11] Lane received the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s top non-fiction prize for a 1988 profile he wrote on former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo.[12]
After leaving college, he was hired as a fact checker for Forbes, and thereafter was promoted to be a staff writer.[11][6] In 1995, when he was 27, he was promoted to Washington Bureau Chief,[11][6] before leaving to edit three publications, P.O.V., Trader Monthly,[13] and Dealmaker.[6]
He founded P.O.V. with a Forbes colleague and the publication was considered by AdWeek as its start-up of the year in 1998.[14]
At Trader Monthly, a bimonthly lifestyle magazine where Lane was the editor-in-chief, Lane created a 30 Under 30 list featuring what his magazine considered the 30 best financial traders at the time.[13]
2010s
When Lane rejoined Forbes in 2011, he created the annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list of up and coming figures in multiple business sectors.[6][11] He then partnered with Warren Buffett to create the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, which he and Buffett have co-chaired for more than a decade.[15]
Lane wrote a book titled The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane.[16] In the book, Lane laid out similarities of some Wall Street traders and Major League Baseball players in their views on the ethics of cheating.[17] He interviewed Lenny Dykstra, about his use of steroids while playing with the New York Mets, for the book.[17] The New York Daily News stated of the book that "Lane does a terrific job... putting things in context".[17] In a review for Inc, Jack Covert stated "What Michael Lewis did for ’80s traders in Liar’s Poker, Randall Lane has now done for trader rock stars of The Zeroes."[18]
Lane was responsible for the reorganization of Forbes' contributor network. The restructure saw it shift from a model where most writers volunteered their time to an all-paid platform with a guaranteed minimum pay.[19]
Lane was born in 1968.[24][25] He is divorced and has two daughters, Sabrina and Chloe.[24] During the COVID-19 pandemic, he organized and hosted a four-week summer camp for his daughters and their friends, hiring teachers out of work due to the pandemic to instruct them in core subjects.[24]
Kanye West incident
On September 16, 2020, Lane was doxxed in a Twitter rant by American musician Kanye West. West tweeted a screenshot of a phone number labeled "Randall Forbes" and wrote "if any of my fans want to call a white supremacist... this is the editor of Forbes".[26] Twitter deleted West's tweet after 30 minutes and suspended his account for violating Twitter's private information policy.[27] Lane had previously interviewed West about his 2020 presidential ambitions which Forbes published in July 2020.[28]
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