I was just in Dallas, trying to remember other times when I was in Dallas, and then it hit me: I was inside Broadcast.com’s Dallas headquarters on the day in February 1999 when it tried to broadcast the Victoria’s Secret fashion show and melted the internet.
If you don’t remember Broadcast.com, that wouldn’t be surprising. But you probably do know of Mark Cuban, the large-personality owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Stars, host of the Shark Tank TV show, and backer of a whole host of fringe tech things like the secretive Dust chat app and Dogecoin cryptocurrency.
The reaction to the UFC 300 poster was swift and severe. Very few people liked the poster when they first set eyes on it. Me? I found the image of a gold flag waving in the breeze with UFC 300 written in white to represent the historic event perfectly. Let me explain.
The posters the UFC uses to advertise its events are often lazy affairs. Like most pieces of the UFC production puzzle, the UFC has a formula it follows, one that it is comfortable with.
Mock drafts are soooooo late 2010s. Mock draft simulators are all the rage these days. And while Too Deep Zone lacks the capability/resources/interest to create an actual mock draft simulator, we still whipped up not one, not two, but four hypothetical drafts, depending on where your favorite team is picking!
First Round: J.J. McCarthy, QB, Michigan. Oh no, your favorite team took the bait and selected Kenny Pickett 2.0, aka slower Daniel Jones, aka Mac Jones with a more rectangular jawline.
Larger than life and with a personality to match, Zero Mostel always thought of himself, not as a comic actor, but as a painter. Best known for creating the role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof (before Topol made the character his own), and for his performances in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Producers, Mostel always said that he acted to fund himself as a painter.
The story of Zepto is a fascinating one.
It is the story of a 10-min grocery delivery startup that sprung out of nowhere and became a soonicorn ($900mn valuation) in just a year.
It is the story of two 19-year-old Stanford dropouts who made it to the Rs. 1,000 crore club.
But, this is the side of the story that sells. The story with all the glamour and fame.
Today, we will look at the other side of the so-called success story of Zepto: a story that involves a third co-founder, an unheard name.