i think any time you lose a third of your staff is bad management, like, that's bad banishment. I the cynic in me, i think they wanted to reduce the head count after all this and clean hou seriously. It's just like severymonte te yolo, their job. Giving six months of severance in a pandemic to people who already are getting paid a fortune cause they're so profitable. So to offer somebody, imagine you weregetting paid fifty per cent more than the average person for your job, then they offer you six months, it's kind of like getting nine months. You're coming out of the pendamic you've been working there
Jason covers Amazon's talks to acquire MGM, AT&T's spin-off of WarnerMedia to Discovery, and Dapper Labs lawsuit about the nature of NFTs (1:00). Then, NYT journalist Taylor Lorenz joins to discuss the implications of social media & its more reckless influencers (15:21), why she prefers to write for the New York Times instead of a lucrative Substack offer (48:50), and more!