When have I ever said I don't want to sell out? I've been the most honest, 'I'm going to sell out right in your face' when I get the chance.
— Dave Portnoy
Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I don't really care.
We have this fanatical fan base that wants to see us succeed, and so they get it. They get that to get the free content and all of the things we're doing - whether it be the blog, the podcasts, whatever - we need money. We need advertising. If you want us to go hire Michael Rapaport, well guess what, we need revenue to do that.
I figured I should have a website, because that's what everybody was doing.
I make the decisions nobody else has the stomach to make.
The first time I used 'Viva La Stool,' I was just bragging about something. People grabbed it, and it went viral organically.
We don't back down from controversy - we fan the fires. People think we go out of our way to create it, but we don't.
There's so much PC police. There's so much, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' We're the exact opposite.
I'm bigger than the Beatles!
Do I like Manhattan? No. Do I want to be in Manhattan? No.
There are almost no other websites that have the type of readership we do.
I'd go toe-to-toe with anybody in the Boston media over our group, 18-35 year-old guys.
You'd never believe how hard it is to find a wetsuit in Boston.
I call it as I see it.
