{"id":189,"date":"2023-02-10T22:01:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2023-02-10T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:02:33","slug":"silicon-valley-needed-gawker-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/silicon-valley-needed-gawker-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Needed Gawker Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the\u00a0recent death of Gawker 2.0, I want to explain how the first Gawker acted as a flawed guardian of the startup world.<br><br>Perhaps Valleywag maintained a balance of power between the worst behavior in the startup world and everyone else. Only some investor-enabled psychopathic founders fail to the level of Theranos. The ecosystem was healthier when startups had a chance for headlines they didn&#8217;t want.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masonpelt.com\/how-gawker-media-once-kept-silicon-valley-in-check\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.masonpelt.com\/how-gawker-media-once-kept-silicon-valley-in-check\/\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With the recent death of Gawker 2.0, I want to explain how the first Gawker acted as a flawed guardian of the startup world.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fRqnGoA91r\">https:\/\/t.co\/fRqnGoA91r<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mason Pelt (@masonpelt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masonpelt\/status\/1622991942471585794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the\u00a0recent death of Gawker 2.0, I want to explain how the first Gawker acted as a flawed guardian of the startup world. Perhaps Valleywag maintained a balance of power&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}