📰 Some news:
Today is my first day at PitchBook, where I’m positively pumped to cover VC as a senior reporter.
I’ll keep tabs on crypto, while digging elsewhere and learning as I go.
Thrilled to join a talented and tenacious news team backed by the best data in the biz.
NEW details on Amazon's big, brewing NFT push:
— Teaming up w/ L-1s & exchanges, plus blockchain gaming companies
— AMZ's Web3 ambitions & end goals
— What it all means for crypto ... If: "they execute and do this right and are smart about it.”
When did reporters and PR ppl become deathly allergic to phone calls?
I’d rather duke it out on a five min call than endlessly email until one of us kicks the bucket.
Just circling back to ascertain potential synergies on this!
Thx.
📰 Some news:
Today is my first day at PitchBook, where I’m positively pumped to cover VC as a senior reporter.
I’ll keep tabs on crypto, while digging elsewhere and learning as I go.
Thrilled to join a talented and tenacious news team backed by the best data in the biz.
@ImNotTheWolf
I don’t know you.
But I appreciate you sharing this, and I’m sorry — if not surprised — to see the Twitter cheap seats taking shots.
Thanks for sharing your personal experience in what can be a brutal public forum.
Best of luck in doing what’s best for you 🤝🏻
The top trait in PR people?
Building the backbone to tell their biggest, baddest clients one word:
"No."
No, this does not a press release make.
No, this reporter will not care about that.
No, you cannot "review" the story before it's published.
My not-so-little-anymore sister, Caroline, has been on my mind.
If you haven't heard her story, Caroline is an absolute spitfire of the most empathetic human. She happens to have Down syndrome.
If you haven't already, please cut
"retarded" from your vocabulary. It's not OK.
📰 I'm working with
@Unchained_pod
for the next few weeks, where I'm pumped to edit great stories and break big news. Say hi/send scoops: michaelbodley
@unchainedcrypto
dot com
SCOOP: Amazon’s NFT ambitions are massive, according to seven sources and two confidential Amazon decks.
— Twitch integration
— July Prime Day Push
— The Fabricant as NFT fashion partner
After repeat delays, sources say the platform’s primed.
Will never understand why reporters and PR ppl are confrontational for confrontation’s sake.
You’re always going to score more scoops with honey 🍯
And sources say it’s better for your blood pressure.
On my day off, I am apparently obligated to remind my PR ~friends~ that just bc I talk to your client does not mean I have entered a blood pact to quote them — now, or ever.
Bloomberg did not scoop this story.
Our
@strack_ben
at Blockworks beat Bloomberg by more than two hours to their “scoop.”
Give crypto media credit where credit is due.
Because that’s far overdue.
@JasonHecarim
@coinfessions
Bullshit.
Perpetuating this stigma is the problem.
Competent recruiters & hiring managers work with those who choose to disclose disabilities, not against them.
And if they don’t, they should.
Your sources are not your friends.
You should get to know them, personally & professionally.
You should learn their quirks and enjoy the expense account dinners.
But don’t forget the day will come when you have a scoop damaging to their firm, their friends or themselves.
Happy World Down Syndrome Day!
I’d be lost without my sister, Caroline — from her infectious cackle to her insistence on never skipping desert.
People with DS should be celebrated today and every day. Join in.
A great thing about summer in NY is that one minute you’re wandering the city convinced people watching like this cannot possibly be free and the next you find yourself at a rooftop bar mortgaging your first born child.
PR pro just pitched me with the award-winning news peg of a startup’s third anniversary.
That’s it. That’s the tweet.
Happy third anniversary of burning VC cash! Your card is in the mail.