SCOOP: Puck alumni are building a food media startup.
To serve “industry insiders as well as consumers.”
Hello everyone. Today’s letter is being sent from Balthazar where the hostess let me know that their team reads Feed Me. Which is good, because we’re in agreement that their profiteroles are the best in the city.
Today’s letter includes: A scoop about a new media startup from Puck and VF alumni, Vanity Fair’s new hires, the Lower East Side is overwhelmed by photo booths, and someone should open a sports betting app-free bar.
SCOOP: Puck alumni are building a food media startup.
In S2E2 of Succession, Kendall Roy visits the offices of media startup Vaulter to gut the company. He retains just two promising teams: “Food and weed, those are the only two verticals driving revenue so we’re folding them in and, uh, yeah, you’re all free to leave.”