Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
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Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
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#2this is one of those stories where you first hear it, you stop and think for one beat and then you say "of course, what an obvious move"
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#3Jeff Lawson has state of Michigan connections. A University of Michigan grad he started a digital textbook company, but was just too early. Then he was founding CTO of StubHub which is based in Detroit.
I regret never actually meeting him though we have some mutual friends in common. Tried to get him to speak at a hackathon I was running in Detroit during his early days at Twilio but he was simply too busy which I can understand. Got Dug Song, cofounder of Duo Security, and he did a terrific job of inspiring all of us.
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#4I hope they bring back T. Herman Zweibel. Always found his editorials edifying and educational.
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#5Area man suckered into purchase of declining fake news website
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#6From a different article: https://www.businessinsider.com/twilio-founder-jeff-lawson-b...
> When asked whether he had purchased The Onion, Lawson played coy. "What's The Onion?" he replied. Then, "What's a Tetrahedron?"
> Business Insider was unsure how to respond to these questions.
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#7> When asked whether he had purchased The Onion, Lawson played coy. "What's The Onion?" he replied. Then, "What's a Tetrahedron?" Business Insider was unsure how to respond to these questions.
Sounds like The Onion is in good hands.
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#8The Onion was great back when their Youtube channel created real videos. Now it's a mild chuckle every few months
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#9The Onion was great back when their Youtube channel created real videos. Now it's a mild chuckle every few months
I think they’re great and I’ve only seen like two or three of their videos ever.
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#10The Onion was great back when their Youtube channel created real videos. Now it's a mild chuckle every few months
They had amazingly high production values on classics like "Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA and "Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ
I wonder why they stopped.