“The path to profitability and success was direct and obvious to him. We just needed to create more content and let him run the ship.”— Samer Kalaf, cjr.org
“Deadspin is not actually a site about sports. It’s a site about aging, and about how we’ve all grown up, either from the inside or watching the site grow and come to its own awareness of other people out there in the world.”— David Roth, slate.com
“The site’s interim editor in chief, Barry Petchesky, who had worked there for 10 years, tweeted Tuesday that he had been fired for 'not sticking to sports.'”— Marc Tracy, nytimes.com
“We used to call them “namestorms.” Get it? Denton didn’t want them too positive. They always had to have a negative connotation. Everyone else on the Web would have named it something like “HomeRun.com” or “BigWinner.com.” We’d put together these complicated spreadsheets with prefixes and suffixes t…”— Lockhart Steele, amazon.com