How the Founder of Pitchfork Made It Big
Way back in 1995, Ryan Schreiber was a high school graduate working as a record store clerk. Finding little on the Internet about indie music, he decided to start his own Web page and launched Pitchfork. With no publishing experience, the site eventually became the online authority on indie music, and nowadays a review there can make or break a career.
In the latest installment of Mediabistro’s So What Do You Do? series, Schreiber says that aspiring entrepreneurs should “be willing to put in the work for a long period of time for just the love of it.”
“Today, more so than any other time, it seems really difficult to make a living in the media, especially in the music media,” he explained.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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