Vinit Bharara’s Some Spider Begins to Weave Its Web

Several months ago, Vinit Bharara, founder of the digital media publisher Some Spider, bought the pre-K-oriented website Scary Mommy (“A parenting website for imperfect parents”) as a base for serial niche-site reproduction. The mommy site, which was founded by Jill Smokler, has already ...

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Times C.T.O. Rajiv Pant Leaves to Join Start-Up Some Spider

In a move that presages more changes within the New York Times’ technology and product teams, chief technology officer Rajiv Pant will leave to take a job at a New York-based start-up, I’ve learned. (Addition: That start-up is Some Spider, headed by former NYT paywall executive Paul Smurl) ...

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