How Did You Become a Manager of People?

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In early two thousand four, a eric car who'd been selling ads, was like, i actually hate doing this. But eric had managed to expandid even a little bit more, like the base, right? So i was koing of comefr sike, ok, if i actually hire a person who's really good at this, we'll really be set. We can really grow from there. And so once he came on board, he was so good at what he did, and he was able to like, branch out beyond, you know, india record labels, which had been our primary target before. Started to become quite profitable.

While working at his local record store at age 20, Ryan Schreiber dreamt that his scrappy music review webpage might one day grow into an influential music publication. Working out of his parents’ house, he wrote about indie music because he loved it, and recruited like-minded friends to do the same. In 2000, a rhapsodic review of Radiohead’s “Kid A” got huge attention online, and soon Ryan’s site began to attract tens of thousands of users—building a reputation for pointed reviews that could make or break careers. In 2015, Pitchfork joined The New Yorker and Vogue when it was acquired by Condé Nast, one of the most prestigious magazine publishers in the world.

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