Randall Lane
Speaking at the 2021 World Economic Forum
Born	1968 (age 55–56)
Occupation(s)	Chief Content Officer and Editor-in-chief, Forbes
Notable credit(s)	Forbes, P.O.V. (magazine), Trader Monthly, Dealmaker, Daily Beast
Children	2

Randall Lane (born 1968) is an American journalist and author who serves as the chief content officer ^{[1] [2]} and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine. ^{[3] [4] [5]} In 2011, Lane created the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. ^[6] Lane is a former editor-at-large for both Newsweek and The Daily Beast. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

Career

Lane edited his college newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian at the University of Pennsylvania^{[ where?]} before interning with The Wall Street Journal. ^[10] After leaving college, he was hired as a fact checker for Forbes, and thereafter was promoted to be a staff writer. ^{[10] [6]} In 1991, when he was 27, he was promoted to Washington Bureau Chief, ^{[10] [6]} before leaving to edit three publications, P.O.V., Trader Monthly, ^[11] and Dealmaker (defunct). ^[6] 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. ^[11] 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] [10]}

2010s

Lane wrote a book titled The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane. ^[12] 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. ^[13] He interviewed Lenny Dykstra, about his use of steroids while playing with the New York Mets, for the book. ^[13] The New York Daily News stated of the book that "Lane does a terrific job ... putting things in context". ^[13]

2020s

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lane took part in a multi-part virtual innovation summit hosted by the University of Waterloo. ^{[14] [15]} The New York Times identified him as one of the 922 most powerful people in the United States of America. ^[16]

Personal life

Lane was born in 1968. ^{[17] [18]} He is divorced and has two daughters, Sabrina and Chloe. ^[17] 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. ^[17]

Controversy

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". ^[19] Twitter deleted West's tweet after 30 minutes and suspended his account for violating Twitter's private information policy. ^[20] Lane had previously interviewed West about his 2020 presidential ambitions which Forbes published in July 2020. ^[21]

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