The fall of Vice: private equity’s ill-fated bet on media’s future

Shane Smith, co-founder Vice Media in 2017

The evaporation of TPG’s $450mn investment shows what can happen when Wall Street collides with an uncontrollable creative industry When private equity investors put nearly half a billion dollars into Vice Media in 2017, co-founder Shane Smith hinted that the cash would help his digital media c

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