The man who buys dying companies

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    dealmaker

    The man who buys dying companies:Your media company’s dying? There’s a good chance Bryan Goldberg, the founder of Bustle,wants to buy it. Since 2017, Goldberg, now 35, has amassed a portfolio of digital media companies, including Elite Daily and Mic—both of which had fallen on hard times. Last year, he bought Gawker.com out of bankruptcy for $1.4 million. “I like that these are tough days,” he says. Sigh.

    “We’re laser-focused on building for the next decade what Condé Nast, Hearst, and Meredith had in the 1980s and 1990s during the glory years.”