Gideon Stein (born December 19, 1971, in Washington, D.C.) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the CEO of Write Label,[1] [2] a crowd-sourced platform for short-form writing, president of The Moriah Fund,[3] and chair of Civic News Company (publisher of Chalkbeat). He is the former vice chairman of the board of Success Academy Charter Schools, a high-performing charter school management organization in New York City.
Stein graduated with honors from Wesleyan University with a degree in economics and history. He attended St Edmund Hall at Oxford University as a visiting scholar in development economics and European history.
Stein is the CEO of Write Label, a crowd-sourced platform for short-form writing. He was the founder and CEO of LightSail Education, an adaptive literacy solution for K-12.[4] Stein was the founder, chairman and CEO of Omnipod, Inc.,[5] a leading on-demand provider of real-time messaging to the enterprise market, until its sale in 2005 to MessageLabs Group, Ltd.,[6] one of the world’s largest private software companies (and now a division of Symantec). Stein was a founding partner of MR Ventures, a private investment firm with a portfolio of companies concentrated in media, commerce and software. Stein also served on the board of directors of the Real Silk Investment Company,[7] a publicly traded regulated investment company, until its sale to Lord Abbett Affiliated Funds.[8]
In May 2019, Stein became the President of his family's private foundation, The Moriah Fund.[3] Stein is the board chair of Civic News Company, the publisher of Chalkbeat, Votebeat, and Healthbeat.[9]