Gloria Borger: I was very influenced by about.com, that's got current had created and became a very large website in web 1.0. She says she tried to hire Elizabeth Spears or Spires who was running Gawker but he said no more than two grand a month. "I'll buy you a MacBook Air because the MacBook Air had just come out or something" After selling Gizmodo for 30 billion bucks 18 months after we started at AOL, Ted Leonesis' right-hand man Jim Bankoff took the team from Engadget and Vox and bought a bunch of blog assets that are now part of Vox.

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