Early life and education[edit]
Snyder was born to a Jewish family[2][3][4] on November 23, 1964,[5] in Maryland,[3][6] the son of Arlette (née Amsellem) and Gerry Snyder.[7] His father was a freelance writer who wrote for United Press International and National Geographic.[6] He attended Hillandale Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland. At age 12, he moved toHenley-on-Thames, a small town near London, where he attended private school.[6] At age 14, he returned to the United States and lived with his grandmother inQueens, New York. A year later, his family moved back to Maryland and he graduated from Charles W. Woodward High School in Rockville, Maryland.[6] His first job was at B. Dalton bookstore in the White Flint Mall.[6]
At 17, Snyder experienced his first business failure when he partnered with his father to sell bus-trip packages to Washington Capitals fans to see their hockey team play in Philadelphia.[citation needed] He was disappointed when he found his fliers littering the streets after a tough loss.[citation needed] By age 20, he had dropped out of theUniversity of Maryland, College Park[8] and was running his own business, leasing jets to fly college students to spring break in Fort Lauderdale and the Caribbean.[6] Snyder claims to have cleared US$1 million running the business out of his parents' bedroom with a friend and several telephone lines.[9]
Snyder courted real estate entrepreneur Mortimer Zuckerman, whose US News & World Report was also interested in the college market and who agreed to finance his push to publish Campus USA, a magazine for college students.[6] Zuckerman and Fred Drasner, co-publisher of Zuckerman's New York Daily News, invested $3 million in Campus USA.[6] The venture did not generate enough paid advertising and was forced to close after two years.[6]
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