Adam Goldstein (born January 22, 1988 in

South Orange, New Jersey South Orange, officially the Township of South Orange Village, is a suburban township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village's population was 16,198, reflecting a decline of 766 (4.5%) fro ...

) is an American author, who started his own online software company, ''GoldfishSoft'', at age 14 and wrote alongside

David Pogue David Welch Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is an American technology and science writer and TV presenter. He is an Emmy-winning correspondent for ''CBS News Sunday Morning'' and author of the "Crowdwise" column in ''The New York Times'' Smarter Livi ...

for ''The Missing Manual'' series at the age of 16. A graduate of The

Pingry School The Pingry School is a coeducational, independent, college preparatory country day school in New Jersey, with a Lower School (K–5) campus in the Short Hills neighborhood of Millburn, and a Middle (6–8) and Upper School (9–12) campus ...

and

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...

, he co-founded travel startup Hipmunk with

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co-founder

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in 2010. Goldstein served as CEO of Hipmunk from June 2010 through December 2018. Goldstein has served at the Chief Technology Officer for BookTour.com, which he co-founded along with

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and Kevin Smokler. While still at MIT, Goldstein was President of the

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and a member of the

Tau Epsilon Phi Tau Epsilon Phi (), commonly known as TEP or Tep, is an American fraternity with 14 active chapters, 3 active colonies, and 10 official alumni associations chiefly located at universities and colleges on the East Coast. The national headquarters ...

fraternity.

Bibliography

*''AppleScript: The Missing Manual'' *''Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition'' (with David Pogue)

References

External links

GoldfishSoftAdam Goldstein at BookTour.comHipmunk

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