The revenue and traffic numbers don't surprise me, what surprises me is the number of people on his payroll.
Blodget writes:
We have about 45 full-timers on our team now, of which about 25 work in the newsroom, 10 in engineering, and 10 in sales and management.Yikes! I had no idea. I mean, I knew that Henry had some kind of technical guy that resulted in his graphics being a lot cooler than EPJ's. But I never imagined he had 10 people in engineering. And, I generally read only Henry, Joe Weisenthal and Courtney Comstock at BI, even though I know there are others, and I do correspond with Julie Zeveloff occasionally about running some EPJ content at BI, but I never imagined it was 25 in the newsroom.
Note to Henry:
You've got some heft. Somehow I think you need to better get this point across about your site.
Robert:
ReplyDeleteWould you do what they do to get those numbers? I.e., become a tabloid? Huff Post, Daily Beast, and the like.
BI is nothing more than a left wing, conservative bashing garbage website that started rapidly going down hill last year. Blodget is a total left winger who's is trying to position/market BI as financial HuffPost. Amateur hour at its best. Joe and Courtney are absolutely the worst; they are barely literate let alone serious financial journalists.
ReplyDeleteRobert, why does a smart guy like you even read it?