Robert Stein

Robert Stein (born April 20, 1946) is an American businessman. He is a co-founder of The Voyager Company in 1985, the first commercial multimedia CD-ROM publisher, and The Criterion Collection in 1984, a collection of definitive films on digital media with in-depth background information (including the first films with recorded audio commentary). Born and raised in New York City, Stein attended Columbia University, majoring in psychology. Later, he earned a master's degree in education from Harvard University. Stein then worked with Alan Kay at the Atari Research Group on various electronic publishing projects. After Voyager, Stein founded Night Kitchen to develop authoring tools for experimental electronic publishing, primarily TK3.