If David times everything well, he has 10-15 minutes to meditate in his office and then reviews his calendar before the office wakes up. Feed their cat Buddy and give him some attention.ĩ:00-9:30am: Arrive at the office and prepare for the day.ĬomiXology keeps its startup vibe and generally doesn’t get going until 10:00am or so. He then chows down while watching Good Morning America with Kittson, and then gets ready for work. On the walk to 72 nd Street Bagel and back, David listens to NPR’s Morning Edition on WNYC. “Everything else is pretty variable, but we have to have our fresh bagels in the morning,” he says. Walking to get fresh, hand-made bagels is the one near-unbreakable ritual of the day, David claims.

David wakes up on the early side, if “it’s a running morning, a couple of times a week” and closer to 7am on other days.ħ:00-8:30am: Get the bagels. “I never get stuck in a pattern!” he says. He partially credits his restlessness and non-ritualistic life for his entrepreneurial success. David is “a notoriously non-ritualized person, driving my wife, Kittson, crazy,” getting up at a different time nearly every day. Post-Amazon purchase, David has continued as CEO and now runs both comiXology and is in charge of comics for Kindle. He then did “what any sensible person would do when their first choice isn’t working out,” he took out more student loans and went back to school, receiving his MBA from Stern in 2008. After graduating from Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard, he tried his hand at professionally singing. Founded in 2007 shortly before co-winning the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge, comiXology is a platform for the sale and reading of digital comics, and was recently purchased by Amazon.ĭavid’s first dream was to be a classical singer, when he first came to NYC in 1994. David Steinberger is the CEO and co-founder of comiXology.

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