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by Scoundreller 1090 days ago
Canadaland may have been bootstrapped/helped along by its journalist founder getting some cut out of what they co-founded, “bitmoji” maker bitstrips, which was sold to Snapchat for a reported US$100m.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstrips

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Brown_(journalist)

Maybe the article title should be “Journalists that have successful exits in non-journalism startups should invest in journalism startups”