James Cameron says the new Apple headset is religious.
To which I say, where is my OceanGate movie?
Good morning everyone. Last night, my friend Marta hosted a dinner to celebrate the 10-year anniversary party of her Instagram account Hot Girls Eating Pizza… which at one point was better than LinkedIn. Basically, at a time when Instagram was mainly used for personal accounts, she created an account where she would just take photos of cool girls in New York City…. eating pizza. It ended up turning into a business where she partnered with brands like Marc Jacobs and Ole Henriksen. I don’t think you could create the same kind of account today and see success like that.
This letter includes:
CEO deaths
An update on ManRepeller
An on-the-grounds piece of news about The Sunset Tower
NEWS:
The Messenger completely fucked itself. The news website that pledged to “shake up the media industry” with a playbook borrowed from the doomed publishing start-ups of yesteryear, will be closing down. I’m pretty horrified by the Tweets I’m seeing from former employees, explaining how it all went down. The site’s founder, Jimmy Finkelstein (an entrepreneur with decades of experience running publications like The Hollywood Reporter and The Hill) raised $50mm in investments for the untested start-up. And they burned through that cash fast. Near the end of last year, the company had generated only $3mm and had just $1.8mm in cash on hand. The Messenger lost about $38mm — the majority of its initial $50mm funding round — and was spending more than $8mm on offices in Florida, Washington, D.C., and New York. Employees told The Times that they were not offered any severance pay or health insurance, and the abrupt disappearance of its archive made it difficult for them to save copies of their work.
Chloë Sevigny told The Rolling Stone that there are too many dogs in New York. “The athleisure and the dogs are taking over, and that’s really unfortunate. Everybody’s in Lululemon and has a fucking dog and it’s driving me crazy. I’m sorry, dog lovers. There are too many of you." If you don’t agree with her, read this story from T Magazine yesterday and then tell me what you think.