Christopher Steiner Profile
Chris Steiner is an engineer, a skier, a writer and one of the founders at Aisle50, which is bringing group buying to the grocery world. Aisle50 was part of the summer 2011 class at Y Combinator.
After working as an engineer for four years, which included positions at The Presidio Trust of San Francisco and The Jack Johnson Company of Park City, Utah, Chris pursued a career in journalism. His first writing job was as a staff reporter at the Chicago Tribune. He later migrated to Forbes magazine where he was a senior staff writer for seven years..
Steiner`s first book: $20 Per Gallon came out in 2009. It`s a thought experiment examining how our world would look with higher and higher gas prices. It was named a best book of the year by the Financial Times and Bloomberg.
His second book, Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World, was released by Penguin/Portfolio in August 2012. It chronicles the march of algorithms from the very first hack of Wall Street to their current role as disruptors of the creative class in fields as varied as music, writing, law and medicine. He has also been a guest on The Colbert Report!
After writing Automate This and after years of interviewing and documenting motivated people doing innovative things, Chris caught the entrepreneurial bug, which sent him back toward his engineering roots. He started working, along with his friend Riley Scott, on a web app that would bring group buying to the grocery world. Aisle50 went live in August 2011.
There`s more to the story, which is why Chris still blogs at Forbes.