> “We know the company is financially bankrupt, but it shouldn’t be morally bankrupt too.”<p>LMAO. <i>Sigh</i><p>Factoid: One of VICE's original (ex-)cofounders later was a bearded hipster before it was cool and was one of the white nationalists who founded The Proud Boys.<p>Post Brooklyn move, the other hipster founders either got high off their own supply and/or mentally checked out, and failed at delivering quality journalism consistently. Then Bill Mahar exited, they lost HBO, and everything went down the drain.<p>Another tidbit I recall second-hand was their apparent unreasonable legal documents to speak to a potential source. <i>"You want [person] to sign a lengthy NDA just to have a chat?"</i><p>Startups die when they cease to be businesses by routinely disappointing customers, over-expanding, or failing to monetize.