Matt Elek - VICE Media

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🗓️ 6 July 2014

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

The very day I sat down to speak with Matt Elek, VICE Media's Managing Director of Europe, the MIddle East & Africa, rumours were swirling online of multi-billion dollar takeovers by names like Rupert Murdoch and Time Warner. Not bad for a company that started off in 1994 selling punk magazines in Montreal.

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0:00.0	This week on London Real, we have Matt Eleg, managing director for Vice Media.
0:07.0	We're in Baghdad.
0:08.0	We're here to interview the only Iraqi Heavy Metal band.
0:11.0	The people making this stuff really, really give us shit.
0:14.2	You gotta really fucking care about what you're making.
0:20.3	No matter what it is, stick to your craft, do it well, care about it, be passionate about it.
0:24.0	This is our view on the world.
0:28.0	It's not, you know, we're not pretending that it is every single fact that's ever been delivered on a single subject.
0:33.0	This is risky, it's dangerous.
0:35.0	People would say it's really fucking stupid.
0:37.0	You could hate us, or you could love us.
0:40.0	We just wanted you to have an opinion about us.
0:42.0	Young people are first and foremost,
0:44.0	digesting all their information and content in a digital space.
0:47.0	We don't have a slant at all.
0:48.0	The best way to win is by having a better story and being more interesting
0:52.0	and being more interesting and be more exciting.
0:54.0	Everyone gets the economics of it.
0:56.0	I want to watch this show and somebody had to pay for it and it's not me because I'm watching it for free online.
1:01.0	London Real presents me because I'm watching it for free online.
1:05.0	London Real presents Matt Eleg, Vice.
1:09.0	Smart people working very hard and you know being very dedicated to touch.
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