Vice Media, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 32Suroosh Alvi 13Telfar Clemens 7Ryan Schreiber 5Matt Mullenweg 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Vice Media comes up
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
ECKO UNLTD and COMPLEX: Marc Ecko
Politico & Axios: Jim VandeHei
Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
- ▶ 57:28 Ryan Schreiber Um, I remember when I was in Minneapolis, you know, Vice started out as a Montreal operation. 5 times in the scene
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 24:58 Matt Mullenweg And so CNET was kind of the first internet media company, is the best way to put it, so not unlike a BuzzFeed or Vice or something.
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
- ▶ 16:07 Telfar Clemens It was Vice, the Vice store. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:53 Telfar Clemens Started making things out of, like, fabric, and I had an account at Vice. 4 times in the scene
ClassPass: Payal Kadakia
VICE: Suroosh Alvi
- ▶ 0:45 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Soroush Alvi took a small alternative magazine in Montreal and built it into Vice Media, which is, and this is totally mind-blowing, now valued at over four billion dollars. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:15 Guy Raz And what about Shane Smith, who's now kind of like the public face of Vice, I guess, how did he, how did he get involved?
- ▶ 14:13 Suroosh Alvi 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:06 Guy Raz Ok, so this is now like, like I guess the mid-nineties, uh, and, and you guys have become Vice. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Suroosh Alvi It said the price of vice.
- ▶ 19:45 Guy Raz When we come back, the story of Vice's move to New York and its almost complete collapse.
- ▶ 20:51 Suroosh Alvi So he had Vice, and then he had a magazine called Shift, which was like a spin meets wired kind of magazine for a slightly older crowd, and then he had another company called Halo 46, which was kind of a luxury goods, high-end brand, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:32 Suroosh Alvi It all happened so quickly, we, and we sold more equity to Solwinski, so he ended up taking over control of the whole company at that point. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:52 Guy Raz So you guys buy the, buy back the company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:02 Suroosh Alvi Soroush Alvi, the co-founder of Vice, took a trip to the country's most volatile city, Karachi.
- ▶ 28:23 Guy Raz And, but for some reason you guys made it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:31 Guy Raz How do you feel when people say, uh, that biases is, like, self-indulgent, you know, and it's all about the reporter, and it's not really news? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:10 Guy Raz Yeah, I mean, over time, you guys have attracted a lot of investment, um, and today, uh, Vice is valued at over four billion dollars.
- ▶ 33:03 Guy Raz He no longer edits or manages anyone at the magazine. 2 times in the scene