Since taking over the helm of Prosper last year, he has been carefully reshaping the product and also turning the website into something much more lively.
Both the print and online Prosper products are works in progress, he told the students, and probably always will be given the way the business of publishing is changing.
Jeffrey Young
A journalism pro, Young has written for Forbes and dozens of other magazines. He started his journalism career at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner - almost on a whim - while working as a screenwriter in Hollywood.
Since then his resume went wild with clips from magazines and he wrote two books about Steve Jobs.
Book about Steve Jobs
He threw out dozens of nuggets for the students in his short visit but stressed repeatedly that any writer who submitted a query - or whose story was up for consideration for being included in his magazine - had better capture his interest completely within a couple of paragraphs, or their future with him couldn't even be called dim.
