Wladimir Mufty on Nostr: “Inside the Coke-Fueled Rise and Fall of #VICE the company didn't die because of ...
“Inside the Coke-Fueled Rise and Fall of #VICE
the company didn't die because of investors, sexual harassment charges, or going 'woke' — it died because our founder stopped believing in the product that made us famous”
“Shane Smith ordering a German executive to lock the staff in an attic so we would no longer write about bestiality because it offended Gloria Steinem and the CEO of Google when Shane sailed with them on a yacht.”
https://www.piratewires.com/p/inside-the-coke-fueled-rise-and-fallPublished at
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