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Originally Posted by Arles
Yeah, this is an interesting development. Makes me think of a tactic a lot of bigger companies use with extremely talented (yet somewhat uncontrollable) people. They use them to build something - then once it is built decide they don't want to pay them. It will be an interesting gamble as Grantland's success is largely on Bill's shoulders. I listen to a lot of podcasts and read some articles there, but if Bill leaves - my consumption will greatly decrease.
What's interesting is that both Bill (with his new podcast Bill Don't Lie) and Andy Greenwald/Chris Ryan (with their new podcast Watch the Thrones) have already broken free of the main Grantland podcast feeds to start independent ones. Makes me think that atleast a portion of Grantland (Andy, Chris, Sal, maybe Zach Lowe and maybe Bill Barnwell) will end up leaving and going with Bill.
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Yeah, it would honestly not take much more than one or two of those guys leaving for the site to be unviable.