Steven Florio
Steven T. "Steve" Florio (April 19, 1949 – December 27, 2007) was an American magazine publisher and conglomerateur, was CEO and President of both Conde Nast Publications and The New Yorker, as well as publisher of GQ.
Born in Queens, New York, Florio graduated from New York University with a business degree in 1972.
In the 1980s he served as publisher of GQ; later he went to work at The New Yorker. He was named as President of Conde Nast in 1994 by owner Si Newhouse, and CEO two years later. He stayed as President/CEO until January 2004, but remained on contract as vice chairman for three more years.
Under Florio's tenure, Conde Nast comprised Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, in addition to a dozen or so other titles, specializing in demographic niches.
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“To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one’s way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.”
—John Florio (c. 1553–1625)