Khosla Ventures is a private American venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California . It was founded by entrepreneur Vinod Khosla in 2004.
74-468: SB Nation (an abbreviation for their full name SportsBlogs Nation ) is a sports blogging network owned by Vox Media . It was co-founded by Tyler Bleszinski, Markos Moulitsas , and Jerome Armstrong in 2003. The blog from which the network formed was started by Bleszinski as Athletics Nation in 2003, and focused solely on the Oakland Athletics . It has since expanded to cover sports franchises on
148-536: A Series A round of financing with Accel Partners , Allen & Company , and Ted Leonsis contributing. Jim Bankoff, who was advising the company during the venture round , became SB Nation 's CEO in January 2009. The network had approximately 1 million unique users, 5 million unique users, and nearly 185 blogs by February. The NHL sanctioned and began linking to SB Nation content on its official website in April, when
222-518: A labor union , the Vox Media Union, which had been formed by its editorial staff with help from the Writers Guild of America, East . On June 6, 2019, more than 300 employees under the Vox Media Union staged a walkout over failed labor agreements between the union and Vox Media, leading to most Vox Media websites temporarily ceasing operation. The Vox Media Union negotiated with management during
296-427: A YouTube channel which publishes regular web series by a variety of online hosts and content editors including Jon Bois , Will Buikema, Ryan Simmons, Seth Rosenthal, Kofie Yeboah, Mike Imhoff, Clara Morris and many others. The series produced on the channel include: Alongside these ongoing series, the channel has also published a number of multi-episode sports documentaries. In August 2020, SB Nation's YouTube channel
370-680: A marketplace for advertising, and Chorus, its proprietary content management system . The company's lines of business include the publishing platform Chorus, Concert, Vox Creative, Vox Entertainment, Vox Media Studios, and the Vox Media Podcast Network. As of 2020, the company operated additional offices in San Francisco , Chicago , Los Angeles , Austin , and London . In June 2010, the network featured over 300 sites with over 400 paid writers. As of November 2023, Comscore ranks Vox Media 35th-most popular media company among users from
444-557: A national scale, including all Major League Baseball , National Basketball Association , and National Football League teams, as well as college teams, mixed martial arts and professional wrestling , totaling over 300 community sites. In 2011, the network expanded into technology content with The Verge , leading to the parent company Sports Blogs Inc. being rebranded as Vox Media. SB Nation operates from Vox Media's offices in New York City and Washington, D.C . From 2003 to 2011,
518-706: A national site in 2009, and covered nearly 20 cities by 2012. Vox Media acquired Eater , along with two others comprising the Curbed Network, in late 2013. In 2017, Eater had 25 local sites in the United States in Canada, and launched its first international site in London. The site has been recognized four times by the James Beard Foundation Awards . Eater is led by editor-in-chief Amanda Kludt. New York
592-401: A new division known as Vox Entertainment. The division was created to expand the company's presence in developing online video programming. Vox Entertainment announced new shows in 2018, including American Style on CNN , Explained on Netflix , No Passport Required (hosted by chef Marcus Samuelsson ) on PBS , and another named "Glad You Asked" series on YouTube . Vox Entertainment
666-505: A new technology-oriented website in the same network as SB Nation . These writers had originally left AOL following a series of conflicts between Topolsky and Michael Arrington , the author of TechCrunch (which AOL had previously acquired), and the leak of an internal training document that outlined a content strategy for AOL's blogs that prioritized profitability. Bankoff felt that a technology-oriented website would complement SB Nation due to their overlapping demographics. The Verge
740-712: A partnership with Gow Media. SB Nation sold its first original television program, Foul Play , to Verizon Communications ' go90 , in September. The network was averaging approximately 70 million unique monthly visitors at this time. Foul Play premiered in May 2018. In January 2018, SB Nation and Eater aired an online three-episode celebrity cooking competition series sponsored by PepsiCo . The show featured National Football League players Greg Jennings , Rashad Jennings , and Nick Mangold as competitors, as well as chefs Anne Burrell and Josh Capon . SB Nation also maintains
814-501: A revenue sharing agreement. In February 2018, it was reported that Vox Media would be laying off around 50 employees, particularly surrounding video production. CEO Jim Bankoff stated previously that the company planned to exit native video for Facebook due to "unreliable monetization and promotion". The memo announcing the layoffs argued that despite its success, native video "won't be viable audience or revenue growth drivers for us relative to other investments we are making", and that
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#1732844726813888-450: A slump in advertising demand, stating that no new customers would be added and that existing customers had 18 months to depart the platform. In April 2016, Vox Media and NBCUniversal launched Concert as a "premium, brand-friendly ad network" to reach more than 150 million people across their digital properties. New York Media , PopSugar , Quartz and Rolling Stone joined the marketplace in May 2018. In May 2018, Comscore estimated
962-511: A stipend each month. The network generates revenue through advertising. SB Nation was co-founded by friends Tyler Bleszinski and Markos Moulitsas in 2003. The single blog from which the network formed was launched by Bleszinski as Athletics Nation in July 2003, and covered only the Oakland Athletics baseball team. Athletics Nation quickly became Blogads's second largest website, following Daily Kos , where Moulitsas served as an editor. Following
1036-427: A video gaming website, Polygon , led by former Joystiq editor Christopher Grant. In November 2013, Vox Media acquired Curbed Network, which consisted of the real-estate blog network Curbed , the food blog Eater , and the fashion blog Racked . In April 2014, the company launched a news website, Vox . Led by former Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein , Melissa Bell and Matthew Yglesias , Vox
1110-522: Is a sports blogging network, founded by Tyler Bleszinski and Markos Moulitsas in 2005. The blog from which the network formed was started by Bleszinski as Athletics Nation in 2003, and focused solely on the Oakland Athletics . It has since expanded to cover sports franchises on a national scale, including all Major League Baseball , National Basketball Association , National Football League , and National Hockey League teams, as well as college and soccer teams, totaling over 300 community sites. In 2011,
1184-468: Is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City . On September 24, 2019, it was announced that the magazine's parent company, New York Media, was acquired by Vox Media. The magazine's website, NYMag.com, was a companion to the magazine until it was relaunched as a news site in 2006. It further includes several branded sites: Technology industry news website Recode
1258-838: Is helmed by Vox Media president Marty Moe . In 2016, vice president of Vox Entertainment, Chad Mumm, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 and Variety 's "30 Execs to Watch" list. The Vox Media Podcast Network is Vox Media's non-fiction audio programming business and has a broad portfolio of audio programming across business, technology, news and policy, sports, and dining. Shows include Stay Tuned with Preet by Preet Bharara , Recode Media with Peter Kafka and Recode Daily ; The Verge 's The Vergecast ; and Vox 's The Weeds , Vox Conversations , Today, Explained , Switched on Pop , Impeachment, Explained , Unexplainable , Pivot by Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway , and Vox Quick Hits . The network won "Podcast Network of
1332-478: Is one that wants to tell stories." In 2011, Time included SB Nation in their list of "50 Websites That Make the Web Great". SB Nation was a finalist in the seventh annual Shorty Awards ' "fansite" category (2015), and received a National Magazine Award (or Ellie Award) in the "Digital Innovation" category in 2018 as the publisher of Jon Bois ' narrative, 17776 . A sequel to 17776 , 20020 ,
1406-511: The COVID-19 pandemic , Vox Media announced it would furlough 9% of its workforce starting May 1, 2020, including SB Nation. In March 2024, Vox Media divested Outsports to LGBT-oriented publisher Q Digital, with the site's co-founders receiving an equity stake in the company. In April 2024, Vox Media shut down the website's podcast network. Sites operated by SB Nation SB Nation is made up of over 200 websites called “communities” that cover
1480-481: The COVID-19 pandemic . In January 2021, Lindsay Peoples Wagner was hired to be the new editor-in-chief of The Cut . At the same time, Vox Media also banned fossil fuel advertising to tackle climate change . In February 2021, Swati Sharma —former managing editor of The Atlantic — was hired to be the new editor-in-chief of Vox . Vox Media purchased Cafe Studios, the publisher of Preet Bharara 's podcast Stay Tuned with Preet , in April 2021, making it part of
1554-496: The Colorado Avalanche team. The suit alleged that Vox Media had only paid Bradley a $ 125 stipend per month, despite her being an employee of the company working 30–40 hours (and sometimes up to 50 hours) a week, and had therefore failed to reach obligatory wage and hour protections. Fellow former site managers John Wakefield and Maija Varda were later added to the suit as plaintiffs , and Vox Media unsuccessfully tried to have
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#17328447268131628-830: The Internet , computing , mobile technology , artificial intelligence , financial services, agriculture, healthcare and clean technology sectors. It is known for making early capital investments in startups such as Impossible Foods , Instacart , Affirm , DoorDash , Square and OpenAI . The firm was founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, a former general partner of Kleiner Perkins . Khosla Ventures's first two investment vehicles were funded with his own personal capital and were not open to institutional investors . Khosla Ventures Fund III secured $ 1 billion to invest in traditional early stage and growth stage companies. Khosla also raised $ 300 million for Khosla Seed, which would invest in higher-risk opportunities and science experiments. By 2013,
1702-548: The SB Nation network contained 185 blogs, and in November 2010, Comscore estimated that the site had attracted 5.8 million unique visitors. The 208% increase in unique visitors over November 2009 made SB Nation the fastest-growing sports website the company tracked at the time. In 2011, Bankoff hired a number of former writers from AOL's technology blog Engadget , including former editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky , to build
1776-550: The SB Nation social video team. In August 2019, after closing its national college football blog Every Day Should Be Saturday (which joined the platform in 2010 after originally being established in 2005 as an independent website), SB Nation announced a new college football vertical known as Banner Society , which will aim to " keep expanding, warping, and sharpening the conversation around college football in all its bizarre, corrupt, colorful elements", and "find new and different ways to connect with our audience directly, all over
1850-598: The United States federal court under the Class Action Fairness Act . In several cases, plaintiffs represented by the attorney Richard Liebowitz sued Vox Media over copyright infringement claims. Vox Media is made up of six large media brands: The Verge ( technology , culture, and science), Vox (general interest news), SB Nation ( sports ), Polygon ( gaming ), Eater (food and nightlife), and Curbed (real estate and home). It also owns
1924-589: The "Founder's Choice VC" list of more than 200 venture capital firms in 2023. The firm closed $ 3.1 billion in new capital across three funds as of November 2023 including $ 1 billion for later-stage companies, $ 500 million for seed-stage companies and $ 1.6 billion for its eighth flagship fund. It was the largest fundraiser by a venture capital firm that year. Khosla Ventures stated that the funding would be used for nuclear fusion, humanoid robots and artificial intelligence to support industries such as healthcare and transportation. In February 2024, Keith Rabois returned to
1998-467: The CEO for SB Nation since 2009. Vox Media owns numerous editorial brands, most prominently New York , The Verge , Vox , SB Nation , Eater , and Polygon . New York further incorporates the websites Intelligencer , The Cut , Vulture , The Strategist , Curbed , and Grub Street . Recode was integrated into Vox , while Racked was shut down. Vox Media's brands are built on Concert,
2072-536: The Digiday Video Award for Best Video Ad. In April 2019, Vox Media opened an operation unit known as Vox Media Studios. It is run by company president Marty Moe and is an umbrella for the Vox Entertainment, Vox Media Podcast, and simultaneously acquired Epic units. Vox Media Studios soon announced a new show, Retro Tech , hosted by Marques Brownlee on YouTube . In March 2015, Vox Media formed
2146-544: The Series C in May 2012, valued Vox Media at $ 140 million. A Series D valued the company north of $ 200 million , raising an additional $ 40 million . In August 2015, NBCUniversal made a $ 200 million investment in Vox Media, valuing the company at more than $ 1 billion . Comcast, which owns NBCU, additionally already owned 14% of Vox through other subsidiaries. In January 2018, Vox Media agreed to recognize
2220-495: The United States. Tyler Bleszinski , a freelance writer, established Athletics Nation in 2003 as a sports blog that sought to cover the baseball team Oakland Athletics from a fan's perspective. The blog quickly became popular, becoming the second-most popular site on the Blogads network, after Daily Kos . Bleszinski, together with Daily Kos creator Markos Moulitsas and political strategist Jerome Armstrong , then established
2294-594: The Vox Media Podcast Network. In August 2021, Vox Media announced its purchase of Punch , a mixology website established by Bertelsmann -owned Random House , to undisclosed terms. Punch is to assist the expansion of Vox Media's Eater website. On 13 December 2021, it was announced that Vox Media would acquire Group Nine Media . The acquisition was completed on 22 February 2022. Investors in Group Nine, including Warner Bros. Discovery , now own 25 percent of Vox. In February 2023, Penske Media Corporation became
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2368-539: The Year" at the 2020 Adweek Podcast Awards. In December 2019, Vox Media announced a first-party marketing platform named Forte, in order to offer marketers access to Vox Media's direct-to-consumer relationships. In 2016, business magazine Inc. nominated Vox Media for "Company of the Year", citing that the company generated approximately $ 100 million in revenue in 2015, and was attracting 170 million unique users and 800 million content views monthly by 2016. Vox Media
2442-628: The best episodes of TV of 2020. Vox Media Vox Media, Inc. is an American mass media company founded in Washington, D.C. with operational headquarters in Lower Manhattan , New York City. The company was established in November 2011 by CEO Jim Bankoff and Trei Brundrett to encompass SB Nation (a sports blog network founded in 2003 by Tyler Bleszinski , Markos Moulitsas , and Jerome Armstrong ) and The Verge (a technology news website launched alongside Vox Media). Bankoff had been
2516-658: The blog network's creation, six additional writers were hired to join Bleszinski in creating content, and Daily Kos' platform was implemented to encourage online community growth. Established bloggers were selected to contribute articles, and sports fans could leave comments. After sites were created for all Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), and National Hockey League (NHL) franchises, along with some college and other teams, Bleszinski focused on company growth and making money. In 2008, SB Nation raised $ 5 million in
2590-694: The case dismissed. The suit was granted class action status by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in March 2019. A second labor suit was filed as a class action lawsuit in California in September 2018, citing the Fair Labor Standards Act . Because this lawsuit could have covered 258 plaintiffs and damages of up to $ 6.3 million , Vox Media had the suit moved to
2664-404: The company wanted to focus more on podcasting and Vox Entertainment. The layoffs represented around 5% of Vox's workforce. In April 2019, Vox Media acquired Epic magazine, which would become part of a new division called Vox Media Studios, which had also absorbed Vox Entertainment and the Vox Media Podcast Network. In September 2019, Vox Media agreed to acquire and merge with New York Media,
2738-672: The company was considered one of the top investors in clean technology and had invested in more than 70 companies in the sector. As of October 2015 , Khosla Ventures was one of the five largest and most active investors in the space sector . In September 2017, Khosla Ventures had about $ 5 billion in assets under management . In October 2021, Khosla Ventures announced that it had raised $ 1.4 billion in funding to invest in early-to-late stage startups, breaking down to $ 400 million for seed deals and $ 1 billion for later-stage companies. In January 2022, Khosla Ventures raised $ 557 million in its first opportunity fund. The firm ranked first in
2812-870: The company went public in 2015. The firm also invested Affirm in its Series A round in 2013 before going public in 2021 with a $ 24 billion valuation. Other fintech investments include Stripe , Upstart , and Ramp . Khosla Ventures invested in Commonwealth Fusion's $ 115 million Series A funding round in 2019. Khosla was also an early investor in QuantumScape which went public in 2020. Other sustainability investments include Fortera , LanzaTech and Verdagy . The firm invested in Guardant Health 's Series B funding round in 2014 before going public in 2018 and Alivecor in 2012. Other health investments include Headspace , Oscar , and Sword Health . Khosla Ventures
2886-522: The company's total funding to approximately $ 23 million. SB Nation acquired the blog networks FanTake and The Offside in March 2011, expanding its coverage of college sports and soccer, respectively. The network hired several Engadget employees to launch its first major expansion outside sports. SB Nation 's parent company, SportsBlogs Inc., rebranded as Vox Media in October 2011 and The Verge launched in November 2011. In late 2011, MMAFighting.com
2960-617: The end of the year. Elena Bergeron was named SB Nation 's editor-in-chief in 2017. In mid 2017, the sports and culture website The Ringer transferred its publishing platform from Medium to Vox Media's Chorus platform. The site's founder, Bill Simmons , retained ownership and editorial control. The Ringer 's parent company, Bill Simmons Media Group, and Vox Media agreed to share revenue generated by advertisements sold by Vox Media. Vox Media began sharing audience traffic between SB Nation and The Ringer . In February 2018, Vox Media laid off 50 employees, including some members of
3034-432: The fans of each NFL team. The NFL communities cover game previews and recaps, analysis, breaking news, and player profiles. SB Nation’s NFL community sites encourage their readers to contribute to the discussions on the site and interact with each other as they have a “ground up, grass-roots, instead of top-down” style of covering sports. SB Nation’s NFL community sites encourage their readers to contribute to discussions on
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3108-547: The firm as a managing director. Khosla Ventures invests in companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, financial technology, digital health, medical technology and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology. Khosla Ventures invested in DoorDash in 2013 before the company went public in 2020 with a $ 72 billion valuation. The firm also invested in Instacart in 2012 as part of
3182-543: The internet". In December 2019, Vox Media announced that in order to comply with California Assembly Bill 5 , SB Nation would "end our contracts with most contractors at California brands" over the coming months, and transfer their roles to a new group of employees. The company stated that this would be an extension of investments that have seen more full-time employees working for the network's largest sites, and that former contractors would be able to contribute as unpaid "community insiders". On April 17, 2020, in response to
3256-613: The largest shareholder in Vox Media, acquiring a 20% stake in the company, and Jay Penske joined Vox's board. In December 2014, Vox Media raised a US$ 46.5 million round led by the growth equity firm General Atlantic , estimating the media company's value at around $ 380 million . Participants in Vox Media's previous rounds include Accel Partners , Comcast Ventures , and Khosla Ventures . Other funders are Allen & Company , Providence Equity Partners , and various angel investors , including Ted Leonsis , Dan Rosensweig , Jeff Weiner, and Brent Jones . According to sources,
3330-506: The major sports leagues including all of the NFL teams, and select communities for NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, UFC, Formula 1, WWE, PGA, and college sports. The coverage style of SB Nation’s communities have an emphasis on covering sports from the perspective of fans. SB Nation also operates a site dedicated to sports gambling in conjunction with DraftKings Sportsbook called DK Network. NFL Communities SB Nation has 32 community websites dedicated to
3404-530: The name Recode by Vox . The video game website Polygon launched in 2012 as Vox Media's third property, and publishes news, culture, reviews, and videos. The site's founding staff included the editors-in-chief of the gaming sites Joystiq , Kotaku ( Brian Crecente ), and The Escapist . Staff published on The Verge as "Vox Games" beginning in February 2012, and launched as Polygon in October. The network features long-form journalism that focuses on
3478-634: The national site, Racked had local sites for Los Angeles , New York City , Miami , and San Francisco . The editor-in-chief was Britt Aboutaleb. Racked was folded into Vox in September 2018. Conceived in 2008, Chorus was built to be a "next-generation" publishing platform. Developed specifically for SB Nation, it facilitates content creation, and implemented commenting and forums, which allowed for company growth, later evolving to analyze viewership and distribute content via various multimedia platforms. In 2014, Ezra Klein and Melissa Bell left The Washington Post to join Vox Media, in part because of
3552-424: The network expanded into technology content with The Verge , leading to the parent company Sports Blogs Inc. being rebranded as Vox Media. Vox Media's chief executive, Jim Bankoff, has been SB Nation 's CEO since 2009. The network expanded into radio programming in mid-2016 with SB Nation Radio , in partnership with Gow Media. The Verge is a technology news site, which launched on November 1, 2011; it
3626-500: The network launched 20 regional sites, bringing the total number of sites to nearly 275. SB Nation had 31 full-time employees and was receiving 40 million monthly page views by approximately 8 million unique users, as of mid 2010. Comcast SportsNet and SB Nation agreed to a content sharing partnership in shared markets in June 2010. In November, Khosla Ventures led a third round of funding for SB Nation . The $ 10.5 million received brought
3700-435: The network reaches almost 90 percent of all internet users. With the new partners, Concert launched C-Suite to reach executives among brands such as CNBC , Recode , The Verge , and Vox . Vox Creative is Vox Media's branded entertainment business. In October 2017, Vox Creative expanded to launch The Explainer Studio to bring the explainer format to brand partners. In 2016, Vox Creative's ad for "Applebee's Taste Test" won
3774-408: The network was averaging 5 million unique monthly visitors across nearly 200 sites. In July, Comcast 's venture capital branch, Comcast Interactive Capital, spearheaded a nearly $ 8 million second round of financing. In September 2009, SB Nation was re-launched to serve as a nationally focused portal for the network's blogs. Revenue generated by the network increased by four times in 2009. In 2010,
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#17328447268133848-512: The network's approximately 300 blogs. The redesign was overseen by Spencer Hall, the site's first editorial director. The LGBT sports website Outsports was acquired by Vox Media and integrated into SB Nation in March 2013. The site's founders retained editorial control, and the purchase marked the first time a major sports media company acquired an LGBT-focused website. SB Nation was averaging approximately 50 million unique visitors by mid 2013, and had approximately 800 contributing bloggers by
3922-443: The online publications Select All, The Strategist, New York Magazine (and its affiliated websites), Daily Intelligencer (up-to-date news), The Cut (fashion and beauty), Grub Street (food and restaurants), and Vulture (pop culture). Vox Media also previously owned or operated the online publications Racked (retail and shopping) and Recode (technology news). SB Nation (originally known as Sports Blog Nation )
3996-578: The parent company of New York magazine . The California Assembly Bill 5 was passed in September 2019, and the bill aimed at improving the working conditions for contract workers. In response to this bill, Vox Media announced in December 2019 that it would terminate more than 200 contracts of California-based freelance writers for SB Nation , and replace these writers with 20 full-time staff writers. On April 17, 2020, Vox Media announced it would furlough 9% of its workforce from May 1 to July 31, 2020 due to
4070-492: The people making and playing the games rather than the games alone, and uses a "direct content sponsorship" model of online advertising. Christopher Plante is the editor. Eater is a food and dining network of sites, offering reviews and news about the restaurant industry. The network was founded by Lockhart Steele and Ben Leventhal in 2005, and originally focused on dining and nightlife in New York City. Eater launched
4144-482: The publishing platform. Additionally, the founders of Curbed, Eater, and The Verge said Chorus was a key reason for partnering with Vox Media. In 2018, Vox Media began to license Chorus as a software as a service (SaaS) business to other publishers, including Funny or Die and The Ringer . The Chicago Sun-Times signed on as the first traditional newspaper to launch on the platform in October 2018. Vox announced it would "wind down" Chorus in December 2022 amid
4218-572: The responsibility to "care to the fullest extent about matters of ethics, integrity, and accuracy." It also raised concerns about the lack of diversity in the newsroom. Based on the review, SB Nation permanently shelved the longform program, replacing it with a features program. SB Nation also announced it would take steps to diversify its newsroom. In a statement, SB Nation said that the Holtzclaw situation revealed that "an organization cannot afford to wait to be diverse, particularly if that organization
4292-554: The results of the peer review. It found that the longform program was isolated from the rest of SB Nation in a way that made it impossible for stories to be properly vetted. It also harshly criticized SB Nation for not giving individual editors the authority to review stories about sensitive topics. At the time, sensitive stories were reviewed by the newsroom's two most senior women, senior editor Elena Bergeron and senior content producer Sarah Kogod. The reviewers found that this practice made it appear that an individual editor did not have
4366-580: The seed round before going public in 2020 with $ 11 billion in market capital. Other consumer investments include Opendoor . The firm invested in Okta in Series B funding in 2011 before going public in 2017 and GitLab in Series A funding in 2015 before going public in 2021 with in $ 15 billion market capital. Other enterprise investments include Cylance , Rubrik , Nutanix , and Replit . Khosla Ventures invested in Block, Inc. 's Series A funding round in 2009 before
4440-555: The sites. Many of the communities were launched in the mid-2000s, either from scratch or incorporating existing fan sites for each team into the SB Nation company profile. SB Nation’s NFL producers also produce podcasts covering each team and are featured in other sports media podcasts, radio and in NFL news articles. In May 2016, SB Nation created an online video series for NBC Sports around NBC Sunday Night Football . The network expanded into radio programming in mid-2016 through
4514-443: The sports blog network SB Nation around Athletics Nation in 2005. The popularity of the site led to other sports blogs being incorporated. SB Nation hired former AOL executive Jim Bankoff as an advisor in 2008 to assist in its growth. He was promoted to chief executive officer (CEO) in January 2009. He showed interest in SB Nation ' s goal of building a network of niche-oriented sports websites. By February 2009,
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#17328447268134588-611: The sports blog network SB Nation (originally known as SportsBlogs Nation ) operated under the parent company SportsBlogs Inc., which was headquartered in Washington, D.C. Since Sports Blogs was rebranded as Vox Media , the network has also operated from the digital media company's offices in Manhattan . Vox Media's chief executive officer , Jim Bankoff , has served as SB Nation 's CEO since 2009. Elena Bergeron served as editor-in-chief until March 2019. Many contributors to SB Nation work as part-time contractors, and are paid
4662-436: The story and its publication as a "complete failure" of site standards. SB Nation subsequently cut ties with the story's author, freelance journalist Jeff Arnold, and put its longform program on hiatus pending a peer review of the editorial process that led to the Holtzclaw piece being published. The head of the longform program, veteran sportswriter Glenn Stout, was suspended and later fired. In May 2016, Vox Media published
4736-516: The widespread furloughs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. The union "won a guarantee of no layoffs, no additional furloughs, and no additional pay cuts through July 31, along with enhanced severance for any layoffs that occur in August–December." In September 2017, Vox Media was sued by Cheryl Bradley, a former manager of the "Mile High Hockey" site for SB Nation , which covered
4810-424: Was acquired by Vox Media in May 2015. The property was then integrated into the company's namesake brand Vox under the name Recode by Vox in May 2019. Racked was a retail and shopping website which covered style. It was acquired by Vox Media when the company acquired Curbed Network in November 2013. In December 2014, the site had 11.2 million page views and 8 million unique visitors. In addition to
4884-456: Was integrated into SB Nation after Vox Media acquired the mixed martial arts site from AOL. MMA Fighting produces The MMA Hour and The MMA Beat , which continue to stream on SB Nation and social media outlets, as of 2017. In September 2012, SB Nation introduced a major redesign codenamed "SB United", which introduced a new "magazine-style" layout with a larger focus on long-form content and digital media, and redesigned logos for each of
4958-401: Was launched in April 2014; it is a news website that employs explanatory journalism. The site's editor-in-chief is Swati Sharma. Vox Media acquired technology industry news website Recode in May 2015. Recode hosts the annual invite-only Code Conference, at which editors of the site interview prominent figures of the technology industry. Recode was integrated into Vox in May 2019 under
5032-500: Was launched on November 1, 2011, with Topolsky as editor-in-chief. Alongside this launch, Bankoff and Trei Brundrett created Vox Media as the parent company for both SB Nation and The Verge . The previous parent shell to SB Nation , SportsBlogs, Inc., was converted into Vox Media, Inc. for this purpose. Brundrett, who had been with SB Nation since 2006, became Vox Media's vice president of products and technology, and later chief product officer . In 2012, Vox Media launched
5106-620: Was named one of the world's "most innovative" media companies in 2017 by Fast Company for "doubling down on quality content while expanding". Vox Media was also named one of the "50 Great Places to Work" in Washington, D.C., by magazine Washingtonian . The company gained a rating of 95 out of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign 's Corporate Equality Index , which rates businesses on their treatment of LGBT personnel. Khosla Ventures The firm works with early-stage companies in
5180-537: Was originally staffed by former employees of Engadget , including former editor Joshua Topolsky and the new site's editor-in-chief Nilay Patel . While Topolsky and his team were developing the new site, a "placeholder" site called This Is My Next was created to allow them to continue writing articles and producing podcasts. Topolsky described the site as being an "evolved version of what we [had] been doing [at AOL]." In February 2014, The Verge had 7.9 million unique visitors according to ComScore . Vox
5254-617: Was positioned as a general interest news service with a focus on providing additional context to recurring subjects within its articles. In May 2015, Vox Media acquired Recode , a technology industry news website that was founded by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher , the former editors of The Wall Street Journal ' s All Things Digital . In February 2017, Vox Media promoted Brundrett as its chief operating officer . In May 2017, Vox Media announced that it had entered into an agreement to provide technology and advertising sales for Bill Simmons ' sports website The Ringer , as part of
5328-539: Was released in September–October 2020, with a third edition, 20021 , was set to be released in 2021, but as of 2022 has no set date of release. Letterboxd named Jon Bois ' and Alex Rubenstein's collaborative documentary on the history of the Seattle Mariners the highest rated documentary miniseries of 2020, and The New York Times listed its first episode, "This is not an endorsement of arson", as one of
5402-502: Was renamed to Secret Base. In February 2016, the site published a lengthy profile of Daniel Holtzclaw , a former police officer convicted of multiple accounts of rape and other charges, focusing on his college football career. The piece, which was seen as sympathetic to Holtzclaw, was heavily criticized and was taken down within hours of publication. SB Nation 's editorial director Spencer Hall apologized for "a complete breakdown" of SB Nation 's editorial process, and described
5476-503: Was the first venture capital firm to invest in OpenAI in 2018. The firm also invested in Rocket Lab 's Series A funding round in 2013 before going public in 2021. Other frontier investments include Glydways , Hermeus , Opentrons , and Varda . In February 2021, Khosla Ventures filed plans for the public offerings of three special-purpose acquisition companies (SPAC), which intend to raise
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