Rob Fishman (born March 31, 1986) is an American entrepreneur and writer.

Fishman was born on March 31, 1986, inScarsdale, New York. He is the great-nephew of60 Minutes creatorDon Hewitt andMarilyn Berger.^[1]

He graduated fromCornell University andColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism.^[2]

In 2013, Fishman's first company was sold toBuzzFeed,^[3] BuzzFeed's first acquisition.^[4] Subsequently, in 2013, Fishman co-founded Niche, a marketing company that was acquired byTwitter 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 forThe Huffington Post, contributing editor forBuzzFeed, and has written forSlate,New York, andThe Daily Beast.^[9][10] Fishman's coverage of theCornell gorge suicides in 2010 forThe Huffington Post gained widespread attention.^[11] In 2013, a story he wrote forBuzzFeed, 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 theForbes "30 Under 30" list.^[16] In 2016, he producedAlexander IRL, a teen comedy film starringNathan Kress that was acquired byYouTube Red.^[17]

In 2017, Fishman foundedBrat TV, a video production startup inLos Angeles.^[18]

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