Check your sources.
1) Not sure of Salon's #s, but according to most, Smith took them from 0-15 MM in two years. In this climate, that sounds like a solid "track record" to me.
2) I don't Smith ever worked at IAC. I think what your confused about is that IAC sold ads (or didn't) for HuffPo, prior to Smith's arrival.
@HartleyBateia: $15m at HuffPo? The site made just $300k in Jan-August last year according to numbers cited at [adage.com] and summarized in a post linked above ("making one fourth").
Whenever I read about shit like this I always wonder why *I* can't be ballsy enough to make such crazy-ass demands upon being hired? "Yeah, I'll take the job but if I get laid off I'll need $3mil.." Why WOULDN'T you play Tetris all day long then?
Alas, couldn't Yahoo have been like "uh, there's about 1600 people that qualify for this job, you can take the job as is or go fuck yourself".. He must really have been speshul!
09/21/09
09/16/09
1) Not sure of Salon's #s, but according to most, Smith took them from 0-15 MM in two years. In this climate, that sounds like a solid "track record" to me.
2) I don't Smith ever worked at IAC. I think what your confused about is that IAC sold ads (or didn't) for HuffPo, prior to Smith's arrival.
09/16/09
09/16/09
06/05/09
Alas, couldn't Yahoo have been like "uh, there's about 1600 people that qualify for this job, you can take the job as is or go fuck yourself".. He must really have been speshul!