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I knew I was forgetting something in my earlier post.

As for Waypoint's performance and this Vice rebranding

1. If the problem is Waypoint underperforming, why would Vice let the Waypoint team stay entirely intact? Natalies claim that her leaving is unrelated is likely actually true, and Danielle isn't leaving.

2. Why would this rebranding then also be happening to Vice's other satellites? Would Occam's Razor conclude that the problem is that all of these satelites are underperforming? Or is the problem at Vice HQ?

Disney writes down $353 million of its stake in Vice, chopping its valuation of the media startup for the 2nd time

Disney's write-down could be another bad sign for the struggling digital-media company Vice.

www.businessinsider.com

Likely Vice is facing pressure from Disney and other investors to consolidate some of its many divisions and do some rebranding in order to better focus their product.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

I knew I was forgetting something in my earlier post.

As for Waypoint's performance and this Vice rebranding

1. If the problem is Waypoint underperforming, why would Vice let the Waypoint team stay entirely intact? Natalies claim that her leaving is unrelated is likely actually true, and Danielle isn't leaving.

2. Why would this rebranding then also be happening to Vice's other satellites? Would Occam's Razor conclude that the problem is that all of these satelites are underperforming? Or is the problem at Vice HQ?

No competent management team would decide to make such a drastic brand change if things were going great at Waypoint. It just doesn't make sense.

 

[MayauMiao]

Disney writes down $353 million of its stake in Vice, chopping its valuation of the media startup for the 2nd time

Disney's write-down could be another bad sign for the struggling digital-media company Vice.

www.businessinsider.com

"There's bad news in Viceland."

Sounds like good news to me.