Jack Rivlin
@jackrivlin
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Grand vizier of @upshottowers
London
Joined September 2010
Last year I finally sold The Tab, the media business I co-founded, raised $10 million investment for, and sadly failed to turn into a huge success. Here's what I learned during the two years I spent selling the company: https://t.co/vLLtg2sXSt
jackrivlin.medium.com
A few months ago, I finally sold The Tab, the media business I co-founded at university. If you’re not familiar, The Tab is a network of…
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Buckle in for the TRIAL OF THE CENTURY
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A brief explainer of what’s going on with @JSweetLI’s story for @TheSpectator about how @AdrianDittmann likely isn’t @elonmusk, how reporting that got her banned from posting on @X and how you can’t share the story on here at the moment (thread)
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The Labour MP Jas Athwal is the landlord of an unsafe private care home where children have gone missing and been left at risk of criminal exploitation Devastating expose by @AndrewKersley
https://t.co/CSK36Za1cF
the-londoner.co.uk
The home is run by a friend of his, whose company received millions from the council Athwal ran
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🚨 Some news: after a few great months of subs growth, we're hiring two more journalists. Pls share! 📝Deputy Editor to oversee our editorial operation and run some of our biggest stories ✒️Staff Writer in Birmingham to join @brumdispatch, which is really taking off
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Adriano's career was a chaotic cocktail of goals, guns and gangbangs. After rocking up in Serie A, the Brazilian striker went on a wild rampage. From 20 person orgies to accidentally shooting his girlfriend, this is the story of a wonderkid gone wild...
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So the "£300 million business" built by @StevenBartlett is bankrupt???
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I am biased but this is going to be a massive business
Some very exciting news...🚨 We've raised money from a group of readers and supporters, including ex-NYT CEO Mark Thompson and longtime Mill members like @turi and @DianeCoyle1859. It means this model can now expand - more journalists, more cities. https://t.co/WQ4MIt0Unk
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Saving local journalism from ad-drenched clickbait
We just passed 5k subs across @manchestermill @sheffieldtrib and @liverpoolpost 👯♀️👯👯♂️ 5,000 people paying for serious long form journalism across the North, from publications that didn't exist pre-pandemic. Funding 8 staff journalists and dozens of freelancers. Not bad not bad.
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Our new podcast is straight in at NUMBER ONE of the Apple sport podcast charts. Listen to the opening episode on legendary bad boy Jermaine Pennant here: https://t.co/TGk8FO6B5b
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New York Times publisher AG Sulzbeger right on the money: "The new model is you have to write three to five stories a day. And, if you have to write three to five stories a day, there is no time to get out into the world."
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@StevenBartlett Pretty sure there’s a word for misrepresenting your background in order to sell products and raise investment…
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So The Times reveal today @StevenBartlett did not, as he claims in his book, on TV and in fundraising materials, build a business worth $300m . In fact, he sold his much smaller business to that company, owns under 2% of it, and it's worth $77mil today. And he was 27, not 25.
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Happy Sexy... Huh? This tweet gathered some steam over the weekend prompting reaction from Steven. I couldn’t resist looking into the @StevenBartlett story a bit further…I was shocked what I've found out from just public available documents that no one ever checked...
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@TimArmoo @StevenBartlett @thesamparr @wso_ Spare a thought for the PR team working tirelessly all weekend 🫠
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Surely the best decade to be a footballer was the mid 90s? Loadsa money but still got your Mars bars and your dentists chair nights out. Press haven't started doing your bins yet. Shagging is still a virtue. Fans less terrifying than the 80s.
🤩 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝘁: “I would go back to the early 2000s, the music was better then!” 😅 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗼𝗶𝘀𝘁: “Any era of all time and you’re going back to the 2000s!?” If he was given a time machine, Darren Bent insists that he wouldn’t travel back more than 20-30 years… 😂😂
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Really good to hear of an investment that fell by more than The Tab’s 93%
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Thank God for @sarahmanavis, who has nailed this profile of Steve Bartlett, "an influencer and motivational speaker masquerading as a marketing genius."
I wrote about the rise of Steven Bartlett – the social media "genius" behind the Molly Mae and Matt Hancock interviews – and how he built a multi-million pound brand on bad advice and his own good luck, and why he's little more than a motivational speaker
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