The A listers all wanted to meet with us and we came away with these quick assessments: the New York Times (super nice folks, super arrogant, super old school); Hearst (interesting range of assets, odd corporate culture, unclear who actually made the decisions); the Atlantic (owner David Bradley was a spiffy gentleman, but we did not relish being tied to another rich dude who would control our fate); Bloomberg (the terminal was the only god there and we were but a shiny trinket for them to play with); Condé Nast (a snakier snake pit than Dow Jones, with a very weird proposal about “shadow”
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