Which ended with, “…and this looks like way too much fun so I’m out of here.” My last piece for The FT was a profile of the founders of LinkExchange. DrinkExchange, I did a company called First Tuesday, more or less in parallel. LinkExchange with a company called Moreover, which packaged up news links and had as the idea, kind of a link paper click economy around news links. They actually had LinkExchange and they had DrinkExchange, both of which I ended up emulating. Nick: My last story for The FT was profile of a company called LinkExchange. Paul: I noticed this table jerks, so you guys should not lean on the table, but I needed to tell you that. My final piece for the The FT was a story about… Martin: So you left The FT and were you still working for ? It actually seemed to be inhabited by a few homeless people, and maybe two or three people who could have conceivably been web designers, but I still believed. It wasn’t quite what I’d imagined, that South Park, I’d imagined this digital epicenter where the new web was being born. I’d read “Wired Magazine.” I believed that something was happening there and was actually a little bit disappointing when I arrived. I had to step off staff in order to, Because I wanted to go to San Francisco. In ’96 switched from the investment banking beat to the tech and Internet beat. I always had a leaning towards technology. Do the other things that you could do in the developed West. I used to go once a month to Vienna to pick up that, and eat sushi.
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When I was based at The FT in Budapest, I used to get on a little train in Vienna which was the closest place you could buy “Wired Magazine,” and all the Mac enthusiast magazines. Could you begin, actually, with your career at “The FT,” and just talk a little bit about that, and kind of when you first hit the electronic side? I think you were a print journalist for a while, right? Yeah. One of the few people who do successfully. Martin: As I was saying before, one of the very interesting things about interviewing you for this project is that you kind of straddle both worlds. He was once featured in a Vanity Fair photoshoot and was the subject of a feature article in The New Yorker. Gizmodo pulls in nearly six million visitors a month.ĭenton was featured in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007 in position 502 with an estimated wealth of £140m (approximately $290m) based on the sale of his previous companies and the current value of Gawker Media. Denton owns nine websites, the most popular being Gizmodo – a lifestyle website about that centers around gadgets and consumer electronics. He was one of the founders of a social networking site called First Tuesday and co-founded Moreover Technologies with David Galbraith and Angus Bankes, schoolmates from UCS.
He co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called All That Glitters. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. He also became the editor of the university magazine, Isis. He was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford where he studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Denton and his Hungarian Jewish wife Marika Marton. For years after starting Gawker Media, the online publishing network, in 2002, Nick Denton ran the company out of his apartment, in SoHo.ĭenton grew up in Hampstead, the son of eminent economist Geoffrey R. Nick Denton, born August 24, 1966, is a British journalist and internet entrepreneur, the founder and proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and the managing editor of the New York-based.
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