PopSugar co-founder says pandemic will create ‘a huge windfall’ for digital...
It’s been less than a year since Group Nine Media acquired PopSugar — but it’s been a uniquely challenging time in digital media. Brian Sugar founded the eponymous women’s lifestyle site with his wife...
View ArticleGroup Nine Media forms a SPAC to fund acquisitions
Group Nine Media — which owns Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and PopSugar — is the latest company to form a SPAC, according to a filing with the SEC. These blank-check corporations, as they’re...
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Media Meets Commerce, As Thrillist Buys JackThreads (Plus, 1,000 Invites)
It was only this past weekend that Dave Chase argued in a guest post here on TechCrunch that online media companies should get into e-commerce through group buying and flash sale sites. Ben Lerer, the...
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Bing Gets A Foursquare Badge For The World Cup, With Thrillist Tips
World Cup mania is about to begin and that means one thing: it's a social media branding opportunity! On Friday, in time for the first kickoff, Bing is going to release a World Cup badge on Foursquare...
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Fashion And Commerce Come Together At The Refinery29 Reserve
The line between content and commerce is blurring. Refinery29, a fashion news and trends site with a local twist, just launched a daily/weekly deal site called Refinery29 Reserve. The deals are for...
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At Launch, Thrillist Rewards Sells More Than $25,000 Of Endless Rib Dinners
Nothing speaks to the hearts, minds (and stomachs) of young, urban men than endless rib dinners. Last week, Bro-zine Thrillist launched Thrillist Rewards, a weekly deals site aimed at its audience of...
View Article(Founder Stories) Ben Lerer: Thrillist Will Do “$40 Million In Revenue This...
In this episode of Founder Stories;, Chris Dixon sits down with Thrillist Co-founder and CEO, Ben Lerer (who is also a partner with his father Ken Lerer in Lerer Ventures). Targeted towards young men,...
View Article(Founder Stories) How Thrillist’s Ben Lerer Got Thicker Skin And Grew Up
In this episode of Founder Stories with host Chris Dixon, Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer discusses the challenges of running a growing business (watch his first interview here). Lerer says of primary...
View Article(Founder Stories) Thrillist’s Ben Lerer On Buying Customers And Going Up...
Founder Stories host Chris Dixon continues his conversation with Thrillist Co-founder and CEO Ben Lerer by discussing customer acquisition. Recognizing the line of thought that it's not optimal to pay...
View Article(Founder Stories) Ben Lerer On The Startup Gold Rush
As Chris Dixon wraps his conversation with Thrillist co-founder and Lerer Ventures partner Ben Lerer, Lerer offers his assessment of the present day start-up environment. From his perspective it is a...
View ArticleThrillist’s JackThreads Hits 2 Million Members, Plans To Move Beyond Flash Sales
JackThreads, the members-only shopping club bought by men's lifestyle brand Thrillist two years ago, just hit a major milestone this morning: 2 million members. At the time of the original acquisition,...
View ArticleMen’s Fashion Site JackThreads Is Blowing Up On Mobile, Which Accounts For...
JackThreads, the Thrillist-owned men's shopping community, is seeing some insane mobile growth and conversion rates. But it has also found something surprising: some of its customers have been...
View ArticleThrillist Expands Its Coverage With Three New Verticals
Here’s one way that Thrillist Media Group is spending the $54 million that it raised earlier this year: It’s adding three new sections to its website, one for entertainment, one for health and one for...
View ArticleThat time when we ate super-powered hot sauce live on Facebook
I’ve officially been at TechCrunch for a week and a half now, which I’ve been informed is the hot sauce anniversary. You know, the one where Thrillist sends you a bottle of scientifically-engineered...
View ArticleThrillist, NowThis, The Dodo and Seeker form a new, Discovery-backed holding...
Four digital media organizations are coming together to form a new holding company — and they’ve also raised $100 million in additional funding from Discovery Communications. Those four companies are...
View ArticleLerer Hippeau closes $230M across two new funds; Ben Lerer is back
Managing partners Ben Lerer and Eric Hippeau discuss the new funds, VC dry power and the current funding environment. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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