Canadian - Journalist | 1970 -
When you're a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, 'How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?' Just managing the company is so hard.
Shane Smith
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The problem that we've had is four media companies run media, globally. And some say they're on the Right and some say they're on the Left; look, they're all afraid of losing Ford as a client. So they're all, by definition, huge companies that are going to be inherently conservative.
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Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.
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I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.
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If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world.
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One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'
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I have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no.
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Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'
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TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different.
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Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.
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I have the greatest life in the world because I created it.
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