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AMA: Hi, I'm Andrew Wilkinson, Publisher of Designer News and Founder of MetaLab. Ask me anything.

8 years ago from Andrew Wilkinson, Publisher of Designer News

  • Joel CalifaJoel Califa, 8 years ago

    Why did you buy DN? :)

    43 points
    • Tyreil PTyreil P, 8 years ago

      Piggybacking off this question, what do you plan on doing with DN?

      3 points
    • Surjith S MSurjith S M, 8 years ago

      or, for how much price did you buy DN?

      13 points
      • Andrew WilkinsonAndrew Wilkinson, 8 years ago

        I can't share the exact number, but it was actually quite expensive compared to how much revenue it was bringing in. I was confident that we could find some great sponsors and grow the job board, so I took a punt.

        4 points
    • Jonathan ShariatJonathan Shariat, 8 years ago

      suspicious

      16 points
    • Andrew WilkinsonAndrew Wilkinson, 8 years ago (edited 8 years ago )

      My Medium post lays it out pretty clearly. I was a longtime reader and have always thought DN had a ton of potential. When I heard about LayerVault going under, I jumped on it.

      I've hired a great little team ( Jody, Max, and Farzad) and we're focused on growing the community, improving the quality of the content, and generally making the site better in whatever ways we can. So far I'd say it's going pretty well. Would love to hear everyone's take.

      ...but mostly because I saw a great opportunity to turn into a link-bait content mill and sell everyone's emails to spammers ;-)

      17 points