I can’t imagine many will see this as 1) I am in Australia and reading comments 5 hours behind and 2) I’m in the grays despite a few stints as a real boy commenter since being a Gawker media lurker since the blue states were losing. That said, don’t bother spamming leadership at this point. As a senior exec at my…

Also I’ve been commenting (admittedly rarely) on GMG since the days of Blue States Lose. Thank god I’m back in the grays otherwise somebody could get hurt around here...

Nothing says “savvy website management team” in 2019 like making newsletter signups a KPI.

The more recent acquisitions have changed/are changing, but generally for the better. Access to their procurement means cheaper inputs (ingredients, bottles/cans, equipment, etc.), but a mandate that one supplier be used over another is rare. I have yet to hear of an example of a mandate that one ingredient be used…

AB InBev hasn’t been a brewery in the simplistic sense in decades. It is one of the world’s largest sales, marketing, and branding companies. They make beer but that is a means to an end.

Incontrovertible evidence to the contrary:

That Power Stick commercial reminded me that every deodorant commercial back then showed the forearm swipe (maybe showing pits was too risque in that more sensitive era?) Of course as a young lad of the times (when your father might buy you deodorant but certainly wouldn’t show you how to use it), I absolutely put it…

Love it when rugby gets attention on Deadspin, hate it when people don’t know what they’re talking about. That is absolutely not a goose step. That is a side step (or just “step”) which is, shockingly, not some secret rugby-only move.

FWIW:

The “four (4)“ construction is by far the best part of this. “I’ve seen a legal document with numbers in it before, and thus will employ this verbiage to show how serious and legal minded my words are.” If Goodell was on the fence before he got to that part, I’m certain he got on the phone to “[his] lawyer” once he…

Nobody likes the expat with “enlightened” opinions on American sports, so I know I’m on thin ice here, but after living overseas for nearly 5 years, I find Big Time Foo’ball essentially unwatchable. I’ve been a diehard Patriots and Notre Dame fan since I was a kid (at minimum, admitting to that combination on…

The biggest shock is that it took like a dozen comments for someone to use the word “distraction” on this thread.

Uh, actually, “what others are willing to pay” is literally the definition of market value.

Nightmare factor is somewhere between forever and infinity. Please delete this blog for the sake of those who have yet to bear its eternal curse.

How I got from understanding private equity deal structuring to being a boot-licker isn’t entirely clear to me, but I’m guessing the author of the article would applaud your dedication to hyperbole!

As it turns out, I’ve been an early employee at a couple of startups that sought PE funding. One time it didn’t work,…

I suppose I’d answer the question with a question: do we care if AGM (and thus Kraft as a board member of AGM) can exert influence over the operations of an AGM portfolio company, or do we care if Murdoch was reasonable in spiking a story about a buddy knowing that it could be easily characterized as all smoke and no…

Everyone seems to be focusing on the grammar, and I assume that’s because there is a general lack of understanding of private equity fund structuring in the commentariat on this particular article. TL;DR—from a legal perspective, Apollo Global Management receives $0 in income from gambling, therefore it is not a…

The good ones also canpay a living wage in part because they don’t need/want to blow money on promotion/PR ass covering:

Soon to be unread post script to unread post: its great how someone could have been reading/posting to Gawker (RIP) media websites for some 15 years and yet they still get sent back to the greys (or equivalent) every couple of years by some algorithm (or equivalent, incl Brian Moylan)...

I suspect this comment will be buried in obscurity at the bottom of this post (I’m posting from Europe in the middle of the night in the US, and some 600 people have already posted takes of varying degrees of hotness), but if anyone stumbles across it hopefully my take is useful at least in its slightly contrarian…

This is more of a personal question, but how does one get “re-greyed?” I have been a daily reader/rare commenter on Gawker media since 2002 (I know who Princess Coldstare is!) but now I've been pushed down into the grasping masses for reasons of inactivity (I assume?) Damn millenials and their what have you done for…