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Columbia Journalism Review / Gabriel Snyder / Jun 4
“I think it’s absurd to believe that starting a business is going to be easier than being a journalist in this job market. I was a columnist at Fortune for a bit, and I got the contract because I had started a Wall Street site called Dealbreaker. I had an office at Fortune, and there was a guy who was sort of peer-level to me who was not happy about it, because I hadn’t gone through the normal channels to get a column at Fortune.” SW
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