Porter Bibb (born c. 1937,

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)"Profile: Porter Bibb: Managing Director, Corporate Finance, MediaTech Capital Partners LLC"
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'', Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit, May 17th, 2011 was an American financier, media producer, and writer. He is best known as the first publisher of ''

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'' magazine.

Biography

Bibb began his career as an

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specializing in media, entertainment, and technology ventures. He founded the first investment banking boutique in London in 1962. He worked on the team that began

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's investment banking unit in 1977, which completed over 300 media and entertainment transactions in five years. For over 15 years, he was a senior partner and director of investment banking at Ladenburg Thalmann. Bibb attended

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and was a member of the Athenaeum Literary Association, a school-sponsored literary and social club. There he got to know another club member,

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, who would become an influential

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. Bibb convinced

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to film the 1969

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despite the bad weather and the withdrawal of

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' financial backing. Bibb also convinced

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to perform at the

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in 1969, and he produced the 1970 documentary film of the event, ''

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''."Gimme Shelter"
, Maysles Films website As a journalist, Bibb was a White House correspondent for ''

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'' magazine, the first publisher of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, and a corporate development director for

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Company. He was the author of several books, including a best-selling biography of

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(Random House, 1993 and 1997). He graduated from

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with a B.A. in History and earned graduate certificates from the

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and

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. Bibb is a direct descendant of the first two governors of

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: William Wyatt Bibb (1781–1820) and Thomas Bibb (1783–1839).

Books authored

* ''CB Bible'', Doubleday, 1976 * ''Disco Inferno: An Illustrated Novel'', Dolphin, 1979 * ''It Ain't As Easy As It Looks: Ted Turner's Amazing Story'', Crown, 1993

Filmography

* ''

'' (1970) – associate producer * ''Year of the Woman'' (1973) – producer

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