Vice Media

“We pulled it from the air and came up with this number, somehow justified that it was a million bucks, and he read it. It was all on one piece of paper. It said the price of vice. He read it, and he said, that's a lot of money, and then he signed it, and they …”

“We took a meeting with MTV, and they said, if we gave you money to make a DVD, what would you do? And we said it would be, like, Jackass meets 60 Minutes. And that worked.”

“We said in, in that interview in La Presse that he was interested in buying us, and he then read it, and then had his office contact us a few days later and said he wants to meet you guys.”

“There's the one, the McAfee story, I don't know if you remember that one the guy who did the He was the guy who did the antivirus software, he was, like, on the run from the police a couple years ago? Exactly, where we kind of embedded with him, and released a…”

“Yeah, and like we did a stock trade, you know, our shares for his company, which was called NormalNet, and they're like, you're worth forty-four million dollars now.”

“We told the world that we were being sued by the Village Voice, and that's why we had to change the name to Vice.”

“I borrowed five grand from my parents. Gavin borrowed five grand from his parents, and Shane got 5000 dollars worth of computers from his dad. His dad worked in, you know, IT or something, and so it was with that, you know, 10,000 dollars Canadian that we star…”

“We owed all this money to these Italian, like, fashion companies who were manufacturing our clothes, and Shane went and took meetings with all of them, and figured out how to reduce the debt. So he's like, well, I know you want 200,000. I've got 20. Take it or…”

“Well, we were on welfare.”

“Our view towards advertising, if you buy that page of advertising, you own that page, you can do whatever you want with it.”

“I didn't know that this is how it was going to manifest itself, and that we would employ, you know, 2000 people, and be valued at over four billion dollars, but yeah, it's pretty amazing.”

“That segment eventually ended up on the homepage of CNN, and they treated it as news.”

“For pennies on the dollar, Shane did a deal, and, you know, he was nice to us in a way, like, even though he put us out of business, but he was, he agreed to sell the company back to us, and we did a deal with him.”