Former CEO: The Aftermath of Vice Media & What's Next for Mainstream Media | Shane Smith
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 24 November 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Shane Smith, Co-founder and former CEO of Vice Media about his journey from starting Vice due to lack of job opportunities in Montreal to its rise as a global media powerhouse; his insights on Vice's unique approach to storytelling, focusing on raw, unfiltered content that mainstream media often overlooked; the challenges Vice faced, including intense scrutiny and competition from established media giants; the current state of media, the impact of technology, and the potential for a cultural shift reminiscent of the 1980s; the importance of direct audience engagement and the need for media to adapt to technological advancements.
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| 0:34.7 | Somebody's got to have the same views |
| 0:38.3 | It's a crazy world |
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| 0:47.3 | Somebody's gotta have the same views news. I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me. Today is the co-founder and former CEO of Vice Media and |
| 1:05.2 | the host of the Shane Smith Has Questions Podcast. Shane Smith, welcome to the Rubin Report. |
| 1:12.7 | Thank you, buddy. How are you doing? |
| 1:16.7 | I'm fine. I'm fine. I said to you right before we started. It's odd that we haven't crossed paths before. I feel like everybody in the media kind of ends up one way or another intersecting. |
| 1:23.1 | Here we are. And I thought it's an interesting time to have you on, actually, because the media is in |
| 1:27.1 | such upheaval. And you've kind of been at the forefront of that. So why don't we do a little |
| 1:32.0 | Shane Smith 101 before we get into everything? How did you start what got you into Vice? Let's just |
| 1:37.9 | do that stuff. And then we can get it to the current day. Yeah, got into Vice basically because we couldn't get jobs. |
| 1:47.1 | I sort of graduated in Montreal, Canada in the 90s, and there was no gigs to be had. |
| 1:54.2 | And there were three of us. |
| 1:56.9 | We started at a government welfare project called Voice of Montreal, and they couldn't pay us, so we decided to take over. |
| 2:07.0 | We changed it to vice. |
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