Since he had already raised the subject of money, I explained that many of our photographers were going into debt—not to mention risking arrest, abduction, and death—to go into war zones for the purpose of sending pictures to our little startup. With the vast resources of Corbis behind us, perhaps we could begin to pay these photographers a base rate—say, $100 per day? “That’s never going to happen,” the Drone said. Ditto health insurance.
