MATTHEW KLEIN

Matthew Klein graduated from Yale University in 1990. He attended Stanford Graduate School of Business, in Palo Alto, during the Internet boom years, but he dropped out of school a quarter shy of graduating, to help run a technology company he founded.

He lived in Silicon Valley for almost a decade, and started several technology firms.

Today he lives near New York City, with his wife Laura. He writes novels and runs a financial-services technology company.