DeMuro: Jalopnik paid him $25 per article
Doug DeMuro · How A YouTube Car Reviewer Sold His Company For $80M | Doug DeMuro (#456) · May 16, 2023 · at 10:10
Doug DeMuro describes his early career dynamics and writing articles for Jalopnik to drive traffic to his YouTube channel.
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“And Jalopnik was paying me, I swear to God, 25 dollars an article, which was not real money, but like the value was in the number of people coming over to my YouTube.”
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