Seth Godin (born July 10, 1960) is an American author, entrepreneur, marketer, and public speaker. He is the author Tribes and Linchpin are his two best-selling books, while Free Prize Inside was a Forbes Business Book of the Year in 2004.
Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Godin graduated from Williamsville East High School in 1978. He received degrees in computer science and philosophy from Tufts University, followed by a MBA in marketing from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a brand manager at Spinnaker Software.
After leaving Spinnaker in 1986, he used $20,000 in savings to found Seth Godin Productions, primarily a book packaging business, out of a studio apartment in New York City.
In the same offices he met Mark Hurst and founded Yoyodyne. After a few years, Godin sold the book packaging business to his employees and focused his efforts on Yoyodyne, where he promoted the concept of permission marketing.
As of April 27, 2014, Godin is the author of 17 books: Tribes and Linchpin are his two best-selling books, while Free Prize Inside was a Forbes Business Book of the Year in 2004. Additionally, during its first two years of release, Purple Cow sold over 150,000 copies in over more than 23 print runs. The Dip was a Business Week and New York Times bestseller. In the early 1990s, he created a 10-book series for children titled Worlds of Power, which was written by various writers. Each of the book's plots is based on a video game and are written in a novelized form. Godin also releases a daily blog.
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