Jann Wenner
11 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 10, 2017 by Jann Wenner · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Jul 10, 2017 negative
Jul 10, 2017
Wenner: Rolling Stone started with $7,500 in pooled capital
“He had some cash to put in, and I got some
2000 dollars for my mother, and for my mother-in-law to be, and some money from a college friend of mine, and also from my stepmother.
And that assembled together was 7500 dollars, and that was what we started with.”
Jul 10, 2017
Wenner: Hunter S. Thompson's first Rolling Stone piece covered his sheriff campaign
“And he wrote back saying, geez, he'd been really reading Rolling Stone. It was terrific and great, but he'd love to write, but he couldn't write now because he was busy involved in running for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. So, I wrote him back and said, well, wh…”
Jul 10, 2017
Wenner: Rolling Stone launched without paying salaries or rent
“You know, it was just, we paid what we could pay for the money we had on hand, and that would be as far as we'd go, and since we weren't paying salaries, weren't paying rent, our only cost really was printing the paper, and The cost of distributions, which I w…”
Jul 10, 2017 positive
Wenner: Hunter S. Thompson's 1972 Campaign Reporting Put Rolling Stone on the Map
“It was also one of the key things that really finally put Rolling Stone on the map in a big way. You know, everybody in the press corps was reading, everyone in the campaign was reading, and people around the country were riveted by what he had to say.”
Jul 10, 2017
Jul 10, 2017 positive
Wenner: Hunter S. Thompson fabricated their feud as a literary foil
“All I can tell you is that Hunter liked to go around Talking about how awful his bosses were, how, you know, you need to always have a villain, a foil for his writing, and if nobody else was available, if Nixon was not available to somebody else, then it was m…”
Jul 10, 2017 negative
Jul 10, 2017 neutral
Wenner: Sold Outside magazine at break-even due to cash constraints
“At the same time, I started a new publication called Outside, and left that in San Francisco. And there came a point where it was just too much to be carrying both magazines, so I sold Outside magazines. ... I sold it for about what I put into it, but I couldn…”
Jul 10, 2017 positive
Wenner: 1960s rock music was the exclusive communication medium for youth
“Music was the kind of tribal telegraph, the drums that were beating for young people around the world, where they could kind of communicate with each other and see what other people People like them around the world we're doing. And so, this is the way young p…”
Jul 10, 2017
Wenner: The true test of business acumen is managing during hard times
“When you're involved in something like, in that stage or something, that when things are growing all the time and getting better and more and more money is coming in, you don't have to be too tough to manage that. You know, you're the victim of success from ou…”