Markos Moulitsas is a singular success story of the new media business. After the Army and college, he founded the original, ultimate liberal group blog, Daily Kos in 2002, which has survived all competitors and is now basically the last of its kind. He co-founded the sports site SBNation in 2003, a company that would become Vox Media.
I’ve known Moulitsas from the small world of political blogs, just a little, for years, and back in March 2014, I realized that he’d been awfully quiet, so I emailed him to ask what he was up to. …
This Sunday, just shy of four years later, he replied on that old email thread. Markos has been up to something, it just took a little longer than he expected. And what Markos has been up to is characteristically ambitious and characteristically a bit apart from everyone else’s obsessions: He’s been building a public opinion research company. CONT.
Ben Smith, BuzzFeed