TIL that a billionaire bought Lonely Planet and put an inexperienced 24 year old wedding photographer in charge - eviltoast
Meet the 25-Year-Old Wedding Photographer Who Became CEO of Lonely Planet
www.nbcnews.com
Daniel Houghton, a former wedding photographer with no prior executive experience, has been trying to turn around global travel guide company Lonely Planet.
  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    9 months ago

    Wow, that’s the entire “article”… The article posting bot would have to expand the “article”.

    • tun@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      The article is dated in 2014 and stated that Daniel Houghton had been running it for 1 year.

      In December 2020, NC2 Media sold Lonely Planet to Red Ventures for an undisclosed amount.

      So I think he did fine.

  • beatle@aussie.zoneEnglish
    122·
    9 months ago

    Twitter would have turned out better if they had followed the same pattern.