He previously worked for AOL and joined Vox Media's predecessor, SB Nation, in 2009.

[6] Bankoff earned his Master of Business Administration degree at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

[5][6] In various roles, he worked on projects including AIM,[10] AOL.com,[11] AOL Music, FanHouse,[4] MapQuest, Moviefone, and Netscape.

[8][17] He then served as president of AOL Web Properties,[18][19] managing AIM, CompuServe, ICQ, MapQuest, Moviefone, and Netscape.

[9][12][21] Bankoff left AOL in late 2006,[3][7] working as a consultant for The Huffington Post and SB Nation, starting in 2008.

[22] In November 2011, Bankoff co-founded Vox Media as the parent company for SB Nation and The Verge.