After nearly two decades as an executive, including five years as president at the Lillian Vernon Corporation, he then served in various leadership roles at U.S. government agencies, non-profit organizations, and in academia.

[16] Hochberg began his business career at the Lillian Vernon Corporation, the company founded by his mother on her kitchen table in 1951.

That table can now be found at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.. As president and chief operating officer, where he led the transformation of a small, family-owned mail order company into an international, publicly traded direct marketing corporation.

[18] In 1993, Hochberg left Lillian Vernon as the company was struggling and later entered bankruptcy, in what was characterized as a sudden move, to devote his time to advocacy and investing.

[21][22] At the SBA, Hochberg helped to lead aggressive outreach that quadrupled loans to minority, women, and LGBTQ-owned businesses across the nation.

[11]Following his years in the Clinton administration, he was in December 2003 appointed dean of the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy,[11] a post he left in late 2008.

[24] During this period the bank also achieved record lows for employee satisfaction and morale and spent large sums of money on frequent international travel by Hochberg.

The book is described as the antidote to today's acronym-laden trade jargon pitched to voters with simple promises that rarely play out so one-dimensionally.

Hochberg has been dedicated to public policy, community service and philanthropic involvement in expanding access to capital, civil rights, education and the arts.

[16] Hochberg was born in New York and lives with his partner, the writer Tom Healy,[35] in Miami Beach, Florida.