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Parr: Vice inflated ad reach by aggregating third-party clickbait sites
“What they did was they did, ah, they partnered with omgfacts.com, distractified.com, and all these other clickbait websites, and they would roll that up, and so they would call them part of the vice network, and so they would tell people, ah, you know, like In…”
Parr: Vice Media Offered $10M in Stock to Buy The Hustle
“They get me in a room, they like send me a term sheet and they're like, well, buy your company for ten million dollars, but it's going to be all in stock. And I was like, well, show me the financials and like, let me see what's going on with your business. And…”
Parr: Media startups should avoid basing operations in New York City
“If you're going to build a media company, avoid New York City. Like when you're a creative services business, you need, it's a talent arbitrage and it's really hard to do that when you're in a really high cost of living city like New York.”