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I didn't call for "speculation", I said the articles did a poor journalistic job of presenting relevant facts that might be informative: a) he stopped being in
by smcin 2y ago
I didn't call for "speculation", I said the articles did a poor journalistic job of presenting relevant facts that might be informative: a) he stopped being in control of Fandango 17 years ago already (yet a casual read of the headline would suggest otherwise (the article body nowhere says "former founder" or "acquired 17 years ago..."), and the body of the article never contradicts the inference) b) his investing activities since then involved several other companies and sectors, less prominently mentioned in the article than Fandango. (Which were his main portfolio companies currently? What was going on with them? Obvious questions.)
Here's a link with some of that information: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/j-michael-cline https://www.crunchbase.com/person/j-michael-cline
And here's another article that did report more on his post-Fandango background:
https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/j-michael-cline-fandango-greenwich-ct-nyc-hotel-19582386.php https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/j-michael-cline-fanda...
And the TC article closes with this confusing sentence "Accretive, Juxtapose and Fandango did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.", which blurs that he wasn't at Fandango for over a decade. Comcast (who acquired Fandango) haven't commented either, but mentioning that wouldn't be that relevant either.