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Vice accidentally exposed fugitive John McAfee's location via unscrubbed photo metadata
“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…”
Vice's co-founders supported themselves on government welfare while starting the magazine
“Well, we were on welfare.”
Vice Media ultimately reached 2,000 employees and a $4 billion valuation
“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.”