Aram Zucker-Scharff

“The external pressures — stagnant growth, media scrutiny, and constant personnel shifts — even created fissures in Twitter’s once rock-solid free speech defense. Shortly after news broke that Zelda Williams was leaving Twitter, Costolo was getting DMs and texts from Hollywood agents at firms like CAA, threatening to pull their high-profile celebrity clients off Twitter […]

“In addition to the $140.1 million verdict in the Hogan case, the majority of which Daulerio is jointly responsible for along with Denton and Gawker, Daulerio listed liabilities of $26,378.70 in student loan debt and another $8,657.45 in credit card debt. With his less than .001 percent stake in Gawker and the more than 44 […]

Wow, VC really has no idea what media is, how much it costs to run, or what the business model is. There was always only so long they are going to pour money into “disrupting” the industry before they realized “audience companies” are not going to magically create hockey stick business growth from the endless […]

“The modern Olympics drape themselves in this early 20th century finery but at bottom they are, like everything else in this godforsaken global hellscape, a corporatist ruse designed to extract capital from suckers who think where they happen to have been born holds any meaning or significance. “The only good thing about the Olympics is […]