Jessica Lessin

Born Jessica Elizabeth Vascellaro, her father, Jerome Vascellaro is the COO of private equity firm TPG Capital and is a trustee at Brown University.[8][9] She attended New Canaan Country School in Connecticut before enrolling in Harvard University in 2001.[10] She graduated from Harvard College in 2005, magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in history. While at Harvard, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and served as an executive editor.[11][12]

After graduating from Harvard, she completed an internship at the Wall Street Journal, and later became a full-time staff member.[10] During her tenure at the publication, Lessin wrote more than a thousand articles and news stories while covering Apple,[13] Google,[14] Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and other global technology companies.[12] She was part of the team that was a 2012 Pulitzer Finalist for a series on digital privacy.[15] The team won a public service award from the Society of Professional Journalists for the same series. She has appeared on CNBC, NPR, CNN, Charlie Rose, and is a regular speaker at international conferences.[16][17]

Lessin left the Wall Street Journal in 2013 to establish The Information, an online tech publication based in San Francisco.[18] Lessin was listed as an Influential Woman in Technology by Business Insider in 2014.[19]

By 2017, The Information expanded the markets it covered, opened offices in Hong Kong and New York City, and had grown to 22 staff members.[12] That same year, Lessin announced that The Information was launching a business accelerator aimed at building subscription-based news organizations.[20]

In 2012, Lessin married Samuel Lessin, a former Facebook VP and current startup founder and investor.[21][22] Their first child was born in early 2017.

• Jessica Lessin at The Information