The Bari Weiss Strategy

[delichon]

A lot of her credibility and name recognition stem from her being popular at the NYT and then being ejected for ideological conflict. "First get famous as an archangel evicted from heaven" is not an easily replicable path to success.

[TimorousBestie]

She was not ejected, she left of her own volition.

[rayiner]

In America, you can just do things and build things. Impressive.

[CharlesW]

You can also run a major network's news division with zero journalistic experience if you're a useful mouthpiece for the right people.

[TimorousBestie]

> Yet I'm sure most of those investors are quite happy with this result, as some of them seem to be on Twitter, which really just proves that there is a whole other non-financial game that exists within the VC game. They are willing to back serious operators trying to change the culture, and even if you don't produce a meaningful return, there are other ways you can win (even in their eyes).

And where is capitalism? This is the 21th century equivalent of Palmerston paying off The London Times so that no one thinks too hard about why England would ever want to fight for the Confederacy.

[benzible]

Highly recommend John Oliver on Bari Weiss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieTx_P6INQ

[rayiner]

Folks like Oliver hate Weiss because her path to success—building a real business that meets a customer demand, generates revenue and employs people—is one that can’t be gifted upon someone based on their checking boxes and playing office politics. The weasel word here is “qualified.”

[CharlesW]

Seconded. I didn’t know anything about her but figured I should, and found it well worth the time.