Joe Ricketts Net Worth: Former CEO Of Ameritrade Vaporizes DNAinfo, Gothamist
November 4, 2017
Joe Ricketts, the former CEO and chairman of the brokerage firm Ameritrade, shut down the local media companies DNAinfo and Gothamist along with its affiliates, including DCist on Thursday. Ricketts informed 115 staff across Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and New York, who got laid off as a result of the abrupt closure, via email of the decision.
“I’ve made the difficult decision to begin the orderly wind down of the DNAinfo/Gothamist business,” Ricketts wrote. “Reaching this decision wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t one I made lightly.”