Josh Quittner

Quittner is CEO of Decrypt Media, a leading independent publication covering the world of Web 3.0, cryptocurrency, NFTs and more.

[3] He has co-authored five books with his wife, including Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace (Harper-Collins, 1995) about the New York-based hacker group Masters of Deception, Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How it Challenged Microsoft (1998), Mother's Day (1993), Flame War: A Cyberthriller (1998), and Shoofly Pie to Die (1992).

He was a crime reporter and a general assignment writer before he started to write about technology from the consumer side at Newsday in 1992.

[4] He later turned the domain over to Mcdonald's after they donated 3,500$ to a public school in Brooklyn, New York for computers and internet access at his request.

After Business 2.0, he served briefly as an executive editor at Fortune Magazine, working at its San Francisco bureau, before rejoining Time in April 2008 as an editor-at-large.