Biography of RICH KARLGAARD Publisher of Forbes Magazine

　　Rich Karlgaard is the Publisher of Forbes magazine, the world's leading biweekly business magazine, read by over 4.5 million people per issue. He joined Forbes in 1992 to start Forbes ASAP--a journal covering the ascendant Internet economy--along with the futurist George Gilder and Forbes CEO Steve Forbes.

　　While editing ASAP, Karlgaard worked with writers such as Tom Wolfe, Peter Drucker, Esther Dyson, Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley, William Gibson, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.

　　Prior to starting ASAP, Karlgaard co-founded and edited Upside magazine, a monthly covering the computer industry and high-tech investment. Karlgaard also co-founded the 2,500 member Churchill Club, a nonprofit affairs organization located in Silicon Valley. For this effort, he was named a Northern California winner of the 1997 Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" award.

　　In 1997, as a hobby, Karlgaard started Garage.com with Guy Kawasaki and Craig Johnson. Now called Garage Technology Ventures, the firm is the leading Web-based seed-capital bank in the U.S., whose investors include Compaq chairman Ben Rosen. Karlgaard remains a board member of Garage. His other board affiliations include Forbes.com, Extend America, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

　　Karlgaard is a regular guest on the Fox News Channel show "Forbes On Fox" and is an acclaimed industry speaker. He is a graduate of Standord University and lives in the Silicon Valley area with his wife and their two children.

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