He was running a media company with supposedly 2.3 million followers / subscribers:

1440 is the daily news briefing followed by millions of readers. But it began as an email we sent to 78 people.

Every morning, we'd wake up to the same broken media landscape. Filler content. Talking heads. Opinions. Infotainment. But one day, instead of repeating the cycle, we started working on a solution: a comprehensive news sourceedited to be unbiased as humanly possible. A daily briefing—in one simple email. For more insight. And less outrage.

To deliver facts without motives, we commit to these guiding principles every day.

To share fact-focused information with the world.

Because 2.3M people trust us to be unbiased as humanly possible. Our readership spans the political spectrum, with roughly 33% affiliated with the left, 33% with the right, and 33% as independent.

This doesn't smell right.