Outlet profile

Inc.

U.S. business-media, centrist and pro-entrepreneur

Owned byMansueto Ventures LLC, owned by Joe Mansueto, the founder and chairman of Morningstar. Mansueto Ventures also publishes Fast Company. Stephanie Mehta is CEO.

FundingAdvertising and sponsored content, magazine and digital subscriptions, events, and its lists, such as the Inc. 5000. It is bankrolled by a private owner, not by a state or a party.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Inc. was founded in 1979 as a magazine for founders and growing private companies. For many years it was owned by the German publisher Gruner + Jahr. In 2005, Joe Mansueto bought Inc. and Fast Company for about $35 million and formed Mansueto Ventures. Stephanie Mehta became CEO of Mansueto Ventures in 2021, succeeding Eric Schurenberg. The outlet is best known for its annual Inc. 5000 list of fast-growing private companies and its other rankings and events. Much of its content is advice and profiles aimed at business owners, along with opinion columns by contributors. It has generally covered politics through a business lens, such as tariffs, taxes, regulation, immigration and the economy. My searches did not turn up specific analysis of Inc.'s coverage of the second Trump administration, so the 'mostly neutral' stance reflects its business-service orientation, not a measured review of its recent record. Readers should note that contributor columns vary in viewpoint and that sponsored content appears alongside editorial work.

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Profile compiled 2026-10-10; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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