Ravi Desai

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Ravi Desai was the founding Editor in chief who became the CEO of TheStreet.com, a post he held for 4 months before being fired by Jim Cramer for myriad reasons, including blackmail.[1]

Desai pledged $2 million to the University of Washington and another $2 million to the University of Florida, along with $1 million to the University of New Hampshire poetry programs. No university ever received more than several thousand dollars of the pledge.[1][2]

In November 1997 he wrote a series of diary entries for Slate magazine discussing, among other topics, his position as a strategic analyst at Quantum Corporation.[3] In March 2002 Slate began publishing diary entries for "Robert Klinger," who purported to be the CEO of BMW's North American division.[4] Slate's readers informed the editorial staff that neither Google's search engine nor Nexis's database turned up any mention of a Robert Klinger in the automobile industry.[5] Slate discovered no one with such a name worked for BMW, and inquiries into Klinger's life led them to name Desai as the actual author and a hoaxster.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Cramer, Jim (May 13, 2002). Confessions of a Street Addict. Simon & Schuster, 320. 
  2. ^ Waiting for the Dough. Poets & Writers. Retrieved on 2007-01-23.
  3. ^ Ravi Desai, Silicon Valley executive. Slate. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
  4. ^ Slate gets duped. (sidebar). Slate. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
  5. ^ Slate gets duped.. Slate. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
  6. ^ Who duped Slate?. Slate. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.


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