13 Dec 2010

We imagined ourselves as a venture-capital-backed start-up in Silicon Valley whose mission was to attack and disrupt The Atlantic. In essence, we brainstormed the question, ‘What would we do if the goal was to aggressively cannibalize ourselves?’

Justin B. Smith, president of the Atlantic Media Company, explaining how the 153-year-old magazine will turn a profit this year after losing money for at least a decade.

(via ellinoz)

(Source: The New York Times, via ericmortensen)