Itay Dreyfus

I made >30k on the Internet yesterday. AMA. https://t.co/2dUQJCsA5i

Online, we need to make the big feel smaller, in the right ways. The challenge to start small from something that is currently controlled by Facebook and Google, is very hard. But people are doing it. Look at The Correspondent, or Open Culture, or Brain Pickings, or thousands of other small projects that have good communities around them. We need... See more

The site feels like a chaotic newsroom with the cutting room floor exposed. I think that’s part of the excitement — and good design.

How many platforms had a distinct voice?

There’s an activity that the Barrel partners have been doing for a while: reaching out to a couple of contacts per week. These have typically been former clients, industry acquaintances, other agency operators, investor types, old friends and classmates, etc. It’s been a practice we’ve kept up weekly since 2017.