Carlye Adler

Carlye Adler is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author and collaborator.

She is the founder and chief ghost of the Casper Media Group, which creates content for well-known leaders on business, technology, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, and politics. She collaborated on three New York Times best-sellers: The Promise of a Pencil by Adam Braun, Rebooting Work with Maynard Webb and The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. She is also the co-author of the national best-seller Behind the Cloud and The Business of Changing the World with Marc Benioff. She co-authored with Mikkel Svane Startupland, named one of the best books of the month by Amazon and co-wrote The Dragonfly Effect with Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith. Her books have been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, Hebrew, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

As a journalist, her writing has been published in BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Time and Wired and has been anthologized in The Best Business Stories of the Year. She has interviewed entrepreneurs and luminaries such as Hugh Hefner, John Kerry, Rachel Ray, Russell Simmons, Donald Trump, Tim O’Reilly, and many others. She has worked in Asia, where she wrote for TIME and was the Hong Kong Correspondent for Daily Variety. She has also been a senior writer at FSB: Fortune Small Business, where she wrote dozens of feature investigations and won several awards.

After taking a semester off from Brown University, Adler fell in love with reporting as an intern at the New York City Resident, a weekly newspaper, where she covered everything from the 10th Police Precinct in Chelsea to the Ms. Senior USA competition. She stayed in the city, sold a story about college dropouts turned entrepreneurs to BusinessWeek, and graduated magna cum laude from New York University.