Гімлет

Пропустив, коли хворів:

'Feb 6, 2019: Spotify announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gimlet for $230M'

Я нічого не розумію у цьому світі.

Кумпанія Гімлет (що має найдебільніше ім'я яке можна уявити), виробляє подкасти. Колись про них волали з кожного уйоб сайту. Я спочатку послухав їх най1й подкаст Startup, але згодом перестав після декількох інтермеццо, у яких вони нили як мріють наймати більше нєгрів та як тяжко вони ревуть та стогнуть, а також плачуть (не жарт) від стресу на роботі. Навіщо мені побут якоїсь бруклінської контори ув вухах?

Їхній 2й подкаст Reply All мене почав ще швидше дратувати, тому що я не можу уявити нахуя мені знати що хтось зробив ув інстаграмі і який страшний від цього піднявся шторм.

Переглянувши декілька rss їх свіжих шоу зараз, я бачу що змінилося нічого:

• The Nod is a culture podcast designed to "gleefully explore all the beautiful, complicated dimensions of Black life."

• Heavyweight: stories "about journeying back to the moment when everything went wrong"

• Uncivil confronts the official version of the Civil War with previously-untold stories

• Story Pirates takes original stories submitted from kids and turns them into comedy shows.

і т.і.

Навіть персональне шоу їх фаундера (яких оригінально втік з NPR, щоб заснувати Гімлета) складається з

• How One Mom Tried to Reunite Migrant Families
• The Man Behind the Iconic Apple Stores: Ron Johnson
• Golden State Warrior Andre Iguodala (NBA player)
• Nina Jacobson: How to Make a Hit in Hollywood
• Sophia Amoruso: From Nasty Gal to Girlbos

Певно це є настільки популярним, що

'The company raised $1.5 million in seed funding at a $10 million valuation.

December 2015, Gimlet closed a Series A round of funding that raised $6 million at a $30 million valuation

On August 2, 2017, Gimlet announced it closed a $15 million Series B investment round, led by Stripes Group

In September, 2017, British advertising firm WPP announced it was investing $5 million in Gimlet for a minority stake in the company.'

Ну і $230M ув результаті.

Я є лох, який не розуміє людей взагалі.

A School for Thieves

У людей навіть спеціяльні школи для кишенькових злодіїв були! Культура!

'Towards the end of the reign [of Elizabeth I], in spite of the stringent acts against vagrancy, the country swarmed with rogues and beggars-vagabonds who laid the farmers under contribution, and terrified all honest folk out of their lives.

In London crime was rampant. Even then it had its organization; there were houses which harboured thieves, in which schools were maintained for the education of young pickpockets.

Maitland tells us that in the spring of 1585, Fleetwood the recorder with several other magistrates searched the town and discovered seven houses of entertainment for felons.

They found also that one Walton, a gentleman born, once a prosperous merchant, "but fallen into decay," who had kept an alehouse which had been put down, had begun a "new business." He opened his house for the reception of all the cut-purses in and about the city. In this house was a room to learn young boys to cut purses. Two devices were hung up; one was a pocket, the other was a purse. The pocket had in it certain counters, and was hung round with hawk's bells, and over them hung a little sacring bell. The purse had silver in it, and he that could take out a counter without any noise was allowed to be a public foyster; and he that could take a piece of silver out of the purse without noise of any of the bells was adjudged a clever nypper.'

(From The Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. I, by Arthur Griffiths.)