But Forbes notes that Valleywag, Gawker Media's tech gossip site, frequently wrote scathing pieces about Thiel, who made his first fortune running PayPal and then made a very lucrative bet on Facebook, where he sits on the social network's board of directors. (recode.net)
Esteemed Hollywood bigwigs such as Martin Scorsese entered the fray, with the Academy Award - winning director penning a scathing piece for The Hollywood Reporter on the shortcomings of review aggregators. (entrepreneur.com)
A couple of months ago, Farhad Manjoo published a scathing piece in The New York Times that claimed the hottest tech startups these days aim to «help people on the lowest rungs of the 1 percent live like their betters in the 0.1 percent.» (inc.com)