Randall Lane (born 1968) is an American journalist and author who is the

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and

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of ''

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'' magazine. In 2011, Lane created the ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 list. Lane is a former

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for both ''

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'' and ''

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.''

Career

Lane edited his college newspaper, ''The Daily Pennsylvanian'' at the

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before interning with ''

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''. After leaving college, he was hired as a fact checker for ''

'', and thereafter was promoted to be a

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. In 1991, when he was 27, he was promoted to Washington Bureau Chief, before leaving to edit three publications, ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''Dealmaker'' (defunct). At ''Trader Monthly'', a bimonthly lifestyle magazine where Lane was the

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, Lane created a 30 Under 30 list featuring what his magazine considered the 30 best financial traders at the time. When Lane rejoined ''Forbes'' in 2011, he created the annual ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 list of up and coming figures in multiple business sectors.

2010s

Lane wrote a book titled ''The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane''. In the book, Lane laid out similarities of some

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traders and

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players in their views on the ethics of cheating. He interviewed

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, about his use of steroids while playing with the

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, for the book. The New York ''Daily News'' stated of the book that "Lane does a terrific job... putting things in context".

2020s

During the

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, Lane took part in a multi-part virtual innovation summit hosted by the

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. ''

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'' identified him as one of the 922 most powerful people in the United States of America.

Personal life

Lane was born in 1968. He is divorced and has two daughters. During the

, he organized and hosted a four-week

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for his daughters and their friends, hiring teachers out of work due to the pandemic to instruct them in core subjects.

Controversy

On September 16, 2020, Lane was

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in a Twitter rant by American musician

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. West tweeted a screenshot of a phone number labeled "Randall Forbes" and wrote "if any of my fans want to call a white supremacist... this is the editor of Forbes". Twitter deleted West's tweet after 30 minutes and suspended his account for violating Twitter's private information policy. Lane had previously interviewed West about his 2020 presidential ambitions which ''Forbes'' published in July 2020.

References

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