Shane Smith made more than $100 million from Vice ☞ Semafor
“The Vice co-founder predicted that the company would be worth $50 billion sometime in this decade, and acted accordingly, turning down the opportunity in 2015 to sell it for $3 billion to Disney…”
“Vice’s years-long struggle to find a buyer have pushed a company that once valued itself at nearly $6 billion to the edge of potential bankruptcy.”