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Am I too stupid to find the play button or is the video not there?
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There's an 8-minute promo for the doc, which appears to be an ad for the book "Blood & Oil", amazon.com/Blood-Oil-Mohammed-Salmans-Ruthless/dp/B08H2JKTV9/
> “We know the company is financially bankrupt, but it shouldn’t be morally bankrupt too.”

LMAO. Sigh

Factoid: One of VICE's original (ex-)cofounders later was a bearded hipster before it was cool and was one of the white nationalists who founded The Proud Boys.

Post Brooklyn move, the other hipster founders either got high off their own supply and/or mentally checked out, and failed at delivering quality journalism consistently. Then Bill Mahar exited, they lost HBO, and everything went down the drain.

Another tidbit I recall second-hand was their apparent unreasonable legal documents to speak to a potential source. "You want [person] to sign a lengthy NDA just to have a chat?"

Startups die when they cease to be businesses by routinely disappointing customers, over-expanding, or failing to monetize.