Entrepreneur Media Inc. CEO Peter Shea

About Peter Shea

Peter Shea is the CEO of Entrepreneur magazine, one of the most successful business magazines for business owners. Before purchasing the magazine out of bankruptcy in 1986, he created, built and sold a number of businesses. Shea describes himself as a product of the streets and never continued his education past high school. Because of this, he realized that he was unemployable and that he had to take control of his life.

In his career, he has been a police officer, photocopy machine salesman, land developer and owner of Stained Glass Overlay which had a patented method of creating the look of cut glass out of a solid piece. Shea built this into a company with 400 franchises in 29 countries. Mr Shea overseas Entrepreneur Media Inc., as sole owner, chairman and CEO of Entrepreneur, which has a readership of 2.1 million a month; Entrepreneur's Be Your Own Boss magazine, targeted to startups; Entrepreneur Press, which publishes 50-plus books a year, and Entrepreneur.com, which averages 30 million page views a month.

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