Don Katz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Don Katz
Occupation	Founder
Date Of Birth	Jan 30, 1952(1952-01-30)
Age	72
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Capricorn

Don Katz Biography

Don Katz is one of the most popular and richest Founder who was born on January 30, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Katz was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 30th 1952. Katz completed his studies at New York University in 1974 in the same year that he was studying with Ralph Ellison, who had been appointed the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities. Katz attributes his initial idea for research in the audiobooks field to his studies under Ellison and his focus on literature as more than just text, and should be read and performed and performed. He said “I studied literature with Ralph as much as I read his work and talked about writing… Audible is testament, in many ways, to what I learned from him.”. He also went to The University of Chicago as and The London School of Economics where he earned the MSc Economics. He is a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.

The prestigious honor of being named one of NJ.com’s “25 Most Influential People in New Jersey” in 2016. Donald Katz has also been named one of the top 25 Innovative Leaders in Living Cities for his efforts in the direction of city transformations in Newark. He. Katz was the recipient of an award called the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation award in 2013. The background of Audible is, as an Business 2.0 magazine profile contends that the story is “precisely what Katz would have wanted to write, with all its grand ideas on how an ambitious businessman turned author will be the leader of the next wave of literary innovation by revitalizing the oral storytelling technique by using the latest technology. However, Katz himself has the main character right now.”

The late Mr. Katz also founded Newark Venture Partners (NVP), an investment fund that focuses on developing a high-tech Innovation Hub in Newark. The fund is located in the headquarters of Audible and offers the company with capital and services for building companies as well as the opportunity to host innovative tech startups. The fund’s first accelerator class was launched in September 2016.

Don Katz Net Worth

Don Katz is one of the richest Founder from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Don Katz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Donald Katz (born January 30 1952) is the chairman and founder of Audible, Inc. It was founded in 1995 and is its headquarters are at Newark, NJ. Since 2007 Audible.com has served millions of users and has over 300,000 free audiobooks as well as podcasts and audio versions of magazines and many other applications. Audible also launched the first digital audio player that was portable in 1997, just four years before the release to the iPod. In 2004 Ms. Katz was awarded the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for New Jersey. Audible was an openly traded Nasdaq company before it was purchased by Amazon.com in early 2008. It became an affiliate of Amazon.com in the early part of 2008. Audible has sixteen outlets across the world that include websites that are located in UK, Germany, France, Australia, Italy, Japan and, most recently, Canada.

Before establishing Audible, Katz was an journalist and writer for twenty years. The author is Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of a Middle-Class Families within Postwar America (1992), nominated for an National Book Critics Circle Award; The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears (1987) which was the Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction and Simply Do It: The Nike Spirit in the Corporate World (1994). Katz was an editor in the contributing sections of Rolling Stone, Esquire, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Journal and Worth. He was awarded the Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on foreign affairs. His writing was nominated or won for many National Magazine Awards. The two-volume collection of his award- winning magazine short stories, King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories and Valley of the Fallen and Other Places was released in 2001. Home Fires was reissued in 2014 in both ebook and audiobook formats. It also features a brand-new introduction written by Jonathan Alter.

Mr. Katz assumed the position of founder and executive chairman on January 2,

2020. Bob Carrigan, former CEO of Dun & Broadstreet, stepped into the role of chief executive officer of Audible.

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Facts & Trivia

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Who invented audible?

Don Katz

How old is Don Katz?

70 years (January 30, 1952)

Who is the CEO of Audible?

Bob Carrigan (Jan 2, 2020–)

When was audible founded?

1995

Who are Audible's competitors?

• Audiobooks.com. An Audible competitor from Canada, Audiobooks.com has a very similar structure. …
• Audiobooks Now. AudiobooksNow.com is very similar to Audible, but its major departure point is in its pricing structure. …
• Downpour. …
• Playster. …
• Overdrive. …
• LibriVox. …
• Kobo. …
• Alibris.