Recode Decode: Nick Denton, Gawker Media Founder, and Jason Epstein, Investor

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Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Gawker Media founder Nick Denton and new board member Jason Epstein, who just bought a minority share of the company, sit down with Peter Kafka to discuss the online media company's rapidly changing outlook. For example, Denton says he's no longer trying to fight against the growing force of Facebook. Plus: How will Gawker deal with the lawsuit from professional wrestler Hulk Hogan heading to trial? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by Digital Media.
0:07.0	I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor of Recode, and you're listening to Recode Decode, a
0:11.9	podcast about tech and media's key players, big ideas, and how they're changing the world
0:16.2	we live in.
0:17.2	This is our special weekly segment with host Peter Kafka, Recode's senior editor and
0:21.2	producer of the Code Media Conference.
0:23.8	Joining Peter each week are some of his favorite movers and shakers in the media world.
0:27.8	This week Peter talked to Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media and Jason Epstein,
0:32.5	the managing director of Columbus Nova, and a new member of Gawker's board.
0:36.9	Denton sold a minority share of his company to Epstein's firm as Gawker finds itself
0:41.2	fighting a costly legal battle against the professional wrestler Hulk Hogan.
0:45.9	You cannot make this stuff up.
0:48.1	Here's Peter.
0:49.1	Thanks Cara, I'm here with Nick Denton, runs Gawker Media and Jason Epstein, who now owns
0:53.5	part of Gawker Media.
0:54.5	Am I summing that up correctly Jason?
0:56.1	Yep, sounds about right.
0:57.5	This was fortuitous.
0:58.5	I've been trying to get Nick to do an interview for a while and Nick said sure, as it turns
1:01.4	out, Nick agreed to do an interview just after Jason via your investment firm, which is
1:05.1	Columbus Nova.
1:06.1	Columbus Nova Technology Partners.
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