Scott Kirsner has spent more than 25 years working as a business journalist and contributing editor at the Boston Globe, Wired Magazine, Fast Company, Variety, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Boston magazine, and other publications. He has covered many Massachusetts companies on their journey from startup to the stock exchange, including Wayfair, DraftKings, HubSpot, CarGurus, Moderna, Alnylam, and iRobot. Scott is the author of several books on innovation and technology, including Inventing the Movies, which examines the technological evolution of Hollywood. His most recent book is Innovation Economy: True Stories of Startups, Flame-Outs, and Inventing the Future in New England. Scott is a regular contributor on WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, and has also appeared on NBC's Today Show, Yahoo Finance, CNN, NPR's Science Friday, and the Discovery Channel. Scott helped start several regional conferences on entrepreneurship and innovation, including the Convergence Forum and the Chatham Conference (formerly the Nantucket Conference.) He is a co-founder of the Boston-based research and events company InnoLead. And he was a co-founder of The Innovation Trail, a nonprofit organization that aims to tell the story of what Massachusetts has been up to since the Revolution ended.
