I was stunned this is BF. Great long form profile. I was wondering if maybe the content is shared / re-run under some other brand as well or if BF can afford to do this in depth stuff itself.
Over the next five years, they'll use this sense of surprising quality to slide native or embedded or whatever they call it advertising right past your radar.
The Boston Post started as a joke of a newspaper that did publicity stunts to get viewers. They took the money they made from it, hired a bunch of good investigative journalists, and eventually exposed Charles Ponzi. They went on to be a respected newspaper.
I can't remember where I heard this, but I think the whole listicle thing generating a profit so that they could produce actually good journalism was always the plan.
I mean, I sometimes hear from their foreign correspondents on NPR or podcasts I'm interested in. They do have some great journalists on staff.
IMHO, it would be fair to criticize this piece for poor editing. The writing feels a bit rough in places. There are sentences and paragraphs which can be considerably abbreviated to be more readable. Further, the article's flow is a bit off. Overall great narrative, though.
Interesting the CEO of Google can walk through CES undetected. What makes a business leader go from anonymous to celebrity? The press probably over-focuses on the celebrity types who probably only account for a fraction of important decisions in the tech world.
Many founders of relatively insignificant companies are more famous than many CEOs of significant companies. Founder is far more accreditive social capital wise than CEO.
> Bavor, for example, keeps a running document of things he’s learned from Pichai. (It’s three pages long. Sample entry: “Always choose quality. If you have to delay things to ship a quality product, delay.”)
I think more so than the choice itself, what's important is that you design a system with integrity. If you want to go in the direction of quality, always choose quality and make decisions in favor of creating an organization geared towards quality. Whenever you go against the system you've created, the outcome will be poor because your system isn't built to handle it.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 58.1 ms ] threadI'm not sure what the "call to action" of your comment is - if the adver-article is interesting, more power to them.
If it's a site you really really like and you want to support them in a tangible way, then yes that's not necessarily a bad use for your money.
Seems like Buzzfeed is doing the same thing.
I mean, I sometimes hear from their foreign correspondents on NPR or podcasts I'm interested in. They do have some great journalists on staff.
I'm curious what other items are on the list.