JACOB GOLDSTEIN is an executive producer at Pushkin Industries, an independent podcast company. Previously he spent more than a decade as co-host of the PLANET MONEY podcast. He is the author of MONEY: THE TRUE STORY OF A MADE-UP THING, which the New York Times called “a history of currency full of astonishing tales you might tell a friend in the pub.” Jacob worked as a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald, and the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He has done stories for The New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He has a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.