JagEx, the Runescape company? They have a tank (and have gotten into trouble for wrecking lawns by joyriding it in the past). I think renting a fire truck is pretty trivial in comparison.
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The fuck is maven
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They appear to be a predatory media company that bought the SI brand to fire more than half the staff and reorganize it into an online clickbait platform written by freelancers with little original journalism, trading on the brand name to generate attention a la Forbes barely curated blogs
They appear to be a predatory media company that bought the SI brand to fire more than half the staff and reorganize it into an online clickbait platform written by freelancers with little original journalism, trading on the brand name to generate attention a la Forbes barely curated blogs
Well looking at their site and their business filing I have questions
But maven got it through Authentic Brands Group again there are questions
But both have majority ownership of stock via Blackrock so yeah this was just 5 minutes and it's basically milking what is left of a enterprise with little idea what to do with it
Sports sites have been largely moving towards a model where there's one central, national hub site, which directs to a ton of subsidiaries for local sports coverage. SBNation and Bleacher Report both do use this model, and I know SBNation has taken a decent amount of heat for how those subsidiaries are run, whether it be because they largely don't pay the people who run those sites or write for them very well, or because they don't always pay attention to who is running them, so some bad shit often sneaks through. Bleacher Report has a...worse reputation. There's also the Athletic, which has a subscription model, and has poached a ton of local beat reporters and national reporters to work for them. ESPN also has region specific coverage, but I believe it's only for big markets like Chicago and LA.
This is relevant because it looks like that's what Maven is trying to do with Sports Illustrated. The difference between all those other sites and what Maven is doing, is that, to my knowledge, none of those sites went to those models by buying a company and then laying off half of its staff. Also they didn't hop in with a bunch of shitty buzzwords and instantly try to brand everything with their dumb name?
And I...just did some preliminary clicking around on their stuff, and...the Maven core site that they link to in that tweet is kind of shit, but I assumed it was just...mostly an investor portal? But I clicked on their "Ohio State Maven" page, pretty much at random, and it's the same basic thing? And there's zero sign that anyone's engaging with any of the content they're putting out, like...there's nothing in any comments sections, their tweets have like, three likes a piece, the "community" sections maybe have like three pieces spread out over a year and a half...it's no good, and I can't imagine they're going to have a ton of success doing worse versions of what other sites are already doing. And they laid off a huge chunk of people because they think this will work. It's shit all around.
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It's certainly not former WWE star and Tough Enough winner and owner of one of the finest dropkicks in the business Maven, unfortunately.
It also doesn't appear to be a plugin for the development platform Eclipse used for linking development projects to Source Code respositories and automated deployment pipelines either.
It's certainly not former WWE star and Tough Enough winner and owner of one of the finest dropkicks in the business Maven, unfortunately.
It also doesn't appear to be a plugin for the development platform Eclipse used for linking development projects to Source Code respositories and automated deployment pipelines either.
And it's definitely not a typing instructional program.
Love that there is a company called "Authentic Brands Group" which seems to solely exist for and profit off of name recognition. Definitely normal and not something cheesy-dystopian from a 1990s cyberpunk game.
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Love that there is a company called "Authentic Brands Group" which seems to solely exist for and profit off of name recognition. Definitely normal and not something cheesy-dystopian from a 1990s cyberpunk game.
They deffo don't have a basement with vats of growing celebrity clones why would you think that?
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They appear to be a predatory media company that bought the SI brand to fire more than half the staff and reorganize it into an online clickbait platform written by freelancers with little original journalism, trading on the brand name to generate attention a la Forbes barely curated blogs
Well looking at their site and their business filing I have questions
But maven got it through Authentic Brands Group again there are questions
But both have majority ownership of stock via Blackrock so yeah this was just 5 minutes and it's basically milking what is left of a enterprise with little idea what to do with it
This is relevant because it looks like that's what Maven is trying to do with Sports Illustrated. The difference between all those other sites and what Maven is doing, is that, to my knowledge, none of those sites went to those models by buying a company and then laying off half of its staff. Also they didn't hop in with a bunch of shitty buzzwords and instantly try to brand everything with their dumb name?
And I...just did some preliminary clicking around on their stuff, and...the Maven core site that they link to in that tweet is kind of shit, but I assumed it was just...mostly an investor portal? But I clicked on their "Ohio State Maven" page, pretty much at random, and it's the same basic thing? And there's zero sign that anyone's engaging with any of the content they're putting out, like...there's nothing in any comments sections, their tweets have like, three likes a piece, the "community" sections maybe have like three pieces spread out over a year and a half...it's no good, and I can't imagine they're going to have a ton of success doing worse versions of what other sites are already doing. And they laid off a huge chunk of people because they think this will work. It's shit all around.
It's certainly not former WWE star and Tough Enough winner and owner of one of the finest dropkicks in the business Maven, unfortunately.
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It also doesn't appear to be a plugin for the development platform Eclipse used for linking development projects to Source Code respositories and automated deployment pipelines either.
And it's definitely not a typing instructional program.
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EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
They deffo don't have a basement with vats of growing celebrity clones why would you think that?
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