Jennifer Jill "JJ" Ramberg is an entrepreneur, author, and television news host. She previously hosted MSNBC's weekend business program ''Your Business'', which aired Sunday mornings at 7:30 ET with repeats on the following Saturday at 5:30 a.m.

Biography

Ramberg was born to a

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family the daughter of Constance "Connie" (née Rudow) and Max Ramberg. She is a third-generation entrepreneur, with her paternal grandfather immigrating to the United States from Mexico first working as a peddler of pots and pans before opening a furniture store, a storage business, a document storage business, and a real estate firm; her father expanded the businesses. Her maternal grandfather founded numerous companies including a tropical fish company, a tire distribution company, and was the first person to bring frozen pizza to California. In 1988, her mother and brother, Ken, founded JOBTRAK, a job listing and resume database for college students, which they sold to

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in 2000. In 1992, Ramberg graduated ''

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'' from

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with a bachelor of arts degree in

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. She graduated with a MBA from

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. In November 2005, Ramberg and her brother Ken founded the charitable search engine GoodSearch. Ramberg began her television career at

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, where she was an associate producer for ''

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''. Ramberg next joined

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as a business reporter, covering the floor of the

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. She also hosted the daytime talk program ''The Flipside'' on

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. In 2006, Ramberg moved to MSNBC and began hosting ''Your Business''. The program aired its last episode in December 2018, one month after Ramberg announced her departure. Concurrent with her tenure at MSNBC, she hosted the podcast Been There Built That.

Personal life

Ramberg is married to architect Scott Glass; the couple lives in

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with their three children.

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