Inc. editor in chief Ledbetter departs for Sequoia Capital

James Ledbetter

James Ledbetter, the editor in chief of Inc. magazine for nearly six years, has left the publication.

Ledbetter is now head of content at Sequoia Capital.

“I am energized and thrilled to be working with the brilliant Sequoia team,” he wrote on Facebook.

He joined Inc. in February 2014. Before that, he was with Reuters as opinions editor.

Ledbetter has previously been deputy managing editor of CNNMoney.com and Fortune.com. He was the founding editor of Slate’s financial site The Big Money and has published six books, most recently One Nation Under Gold.

Ledbetter also worked at The Industry Standard, the Village Voice and Time magazine.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.