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I remember walking down the street, completely freaked out, with a friend of mine who also went to meetings, and I was scared.

And because I didn't know what I was doing, and he said, what have you got to lose?

He said, maybe it'll be like one magazine that you make, and you can go around and say, hey, I made this magazine,

and then you can apply for a job and get a job somewhere, or maybe it'll be huge.

From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, how Sarush Alvy took a small alternative magazine in Montreal,

and built it into Vice Media, which is, and this is totally mind blowing, now valued at over $4 billion.

So I'm sitting here in the studio, and I'm looking at the website for Vice, and I'm clicking through, you know,

it's kind of typical mashup of hard hitting news, and then you've got the sort of oddball feature.

Like this one, this is a story as a psychologist, analyzes the fights couples have in IKEA, which I think many of us can identify with.

And then you just scroll down a little bit, there's this one, how majority Muslim countries are handling HIV infections,

and of course you can, you know, you can click on plenty of slick videos that take you all over the world, like this one, cock fighting in the Canary Islands.

Annabelle and Dominguez is a Sarah activist, an organization who fights for animal rights in the Canary Islands.

I am meeting her because she has arranged to meet Jose Luis Martín, the president of the Canary Islands Cockfighting Federation.

I'll organize the finalists, and I'll be back with a few more.

Anyway, we know that flashy news websites can die almost as fast as they launch, but for some reason, Vice has stuck around.

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