JBJ had inherited Aural Media from his father in late 2014, and was a twenty-eight-year-old Harvard Business School graduate who’d made many of us skittish with his first “town hall”: He’d gathered us in a rented movie theater, fed us popcorn and Twizzlers, trotted out Vin Diesel to say hello for some unknown reason, and then launched into a slick presentation about the need for more seamless collaboration between our editorial and ad-sales divisions. I’d scarcely known him at the time he called me up to his office to gauge my interest in becoming editor in chief, and my surprise promotion was
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Yep. Sounds about right.
