Adam Lashinsky  

Sr. Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine

 

Adam Lashinsky covers Silicon Valley and Wall Street for FORTUNE and is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired – and Secretive – Company Really Works (Hachette Book Group/Grand Central Publishing, 2012). He has been on FORTUNE’s staff since 2001, and for two years before that was a contributing columnist. In addition, Lashinsky is a contributor to the Fox News Channel, appearing weekly on the network’s “Cavuto on Business” program on Saturday mornings; co-chair of FORTUNE’s annual Brainstorm Tech conference; host of the Fortune.com CEO video interview series “Connected”; and a seasoned speaker and panel moderator.

 

Lashinsky’s cover-story subjects in FORTUNE have included Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Google. He also has written in-depth articles on Wells Fargo, Intel, Oracle, eBay, Twitter, and the venture-capital industry, as well as on topics ranging from San Francisco politics and oil-exploration technology to the post-Katrina economic recovery of New Orleans.

 

Prior to joining FORTUNE, Lashinsky was a columnist for The San Jose Mercury News and TheStreet.com.  Before moving to California, he was a reporter and editor for Crain's Chicago Business. As a Henry Luce Scholar, he worked for a year in Tokyo as a reporter for the Nikkei Weekly, the English-language version of Japan's main economic daily. He began his career in the Washington, D.C., bureau of Crain Communications.

 

A native of Chicago, Lashinsky earned a degree in history and political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.