The Ledger
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Luckey: The New York Times published a fabricated quote of mine
“The New York times posted a quote for me that I literally never said. And I told them like, Hey, you said that I said this, I never said that. They said, well, it's more or less what you said. We don't think the meeting is different.”
Puri: The New York Times is functionally a games company
“The New York Times has more in common with Zynga than it does the truth. The New York Times is a games company”
Rose: AI will write 90% of a New York Times bestseller by 2027
“I have no doubt in the next five years we'll see a New York Times bestseller that was 90% written by AI.”
NYT Profiles Still Drive Massive Customer Influxes for Tech Startups
“I am friends with a lot of startup founders who tell me that, like, oh, we got a profile in the New York Times, and we had the biggest influx of customers we've had ever, or we got mentioned, you know, a write-up on here, or whatever it is, and the same thing …”
Puri: Games account for over 50% of NYT bundle time spent
“Games, you know, few years ago, games was roughly 15% of time spent. Now it's over 50% of the time spent in their bundle is on the games product, which is pretty wild. It's more time spent on games than on news. It has overtaken news.”
Parr: NYT earns $90M in subscription revenue from Crossword puzzles
“The number was ninety million dollars in subscription revenue from Crossword Puzzles for the New York Times.”
Puri: NYT digital-only subscribers generated $289M in Q4, mostly from games
“So the New York Times, just in Q four, their digital only subscribers was two hundred eighty nine million, which is all their games. It's a little bit of their cooking product as well, but it's like mostly their games revenue. And so that's three hundred milli…”
Vivi Nevo was reportedly the largest individual shareholder in Time Warner
“He claims to be, and many people, including the New York Times, claim that he was the largest shareholder in Time Warner. He was a very large shareholder in Goldman Sachs, so he, like, runs in all these amazing circles.”
Parr: Wirecutter Generates Close to Nine Figures in Affiliate Revenue
“Wirecutter got classified now as like other revenue. So I've been trying to like decipher it and figure it out. And they do something like close to nine figures in sales from affiliate Affiliates.”