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Ryan Schreiber

8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 6, 2022 by Ryan Schreiber · across every show →

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Jun 6, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pitchfork secured its first advertiser, InSound, for $500 a month
“They asked me to name a price and I, so I went, oh my God, I wonder how much. So I just pulled out the biggest number that I could think of, which was 500 dollars a month.”
Ryan Schreiber Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 35:29 Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Jun 6, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pitchfork reached six employees and over $200,000 annual revenue by 2005
“Yeah, it would have been something like that because by 2005, yeah, we probably had something like six employees at that point.”
Ryan Schreiber Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 55:07 Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Jun 6, 2022
Disclosure
Schreiber funded his move to Chicago by selling CDs on eBay
“I just started selling the stuff that I already had in my collection, kind of like whittling it down and what can I get rid of and what's worth a lot. And through doing that, I made, I don't know, Probably five grand, but I moved to Chicago with that much mone…”
Ryan Schreiber Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 34:41 Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Jun 6, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Schreiber scaled early Pitchfork by mailing advance promotional CDs to volunteer writers
“Once that started to happen, I started to go, I have so much music here that I can't cover myself. Maybe if I put out, like, you know, a post on the website, I can find other people I can send these CDs to, they can write about it, and maybe we can, like, real…”
Ryan Schreiber Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 21:07 Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Jun 6, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pitchfork faced zero online competition for indie music coverage in the mid-1990s
“I was very fortunate to be able to establish Pitchfork at a time when there was zero competition. There was nothing on the web for these artists.”
Ryan Schreiber Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 26:23 Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Jun 6, 2022 negative
Insight
Pitchfork's infamous 0.0 Travis Morrison review forced it to wield authority responsibly
“And unfortunately that was also the point at which I realized when I realized that pitch work could break careers, could like break artists in the bad way. I was like, yeah, that really gave me pause because the reaction to that, I did not, I mean, I didn't, E…”
Ryan Schreiber Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 51:28 Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Jun 6, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Pitchfork was not officially incorporated as a business until 2004
“I don't think we were even incorporated officially until, like, 2004.”
Ryan Schreiber Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 33:21 Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Jun 6, 2022 positive
Insight
UK music press inspired Pitchfork's vicious early editorial tone
“And that, I think that, that kind of UK sensibility of me, of the UK music press, was one of the things that really influenced me to kind of be cattier or more vicious early on.”
Ryan Schreiber Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 12:23 Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
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