David Roth Became a Worker-Owner, So You Can Too

Attach Your Résumé

What do you do when the VC company who bought your blog tells everyone to stick to writing about one narrow topic? Roth can help you with that.

“The crucial difference [between Defector and] every shitty place that I've worked was that the people that owned it didn't really value it or want to own it or care about it that much. This is all that any of us want to do. Like we want to grow, we want to hire more people, do more posts, pay ourselves more, but this is it. This is a terminal position for me.”

David Roth is a writer, podcast host, and an editor at and co-owner of Defector. He has written about sports, politics, and other things at Deadspin, The New Republic, The Baffler, New York Magazine, New York Daily News, and more. He is from New Jersey and lives in New York; he does his posting on Bluesky now.

Credits

- Hosts: Eric Silver & Amanda McLoughlin

- Producer: Brandon Grugle

- Editor: Mischa Stanton

- Graphic Designer: Shae McMullin

- A Multitude production

About The Show

Interviews with online creators about how their jobs work and how they got there. Hear the personal stories behind seismic events in digital media and learn what concrete steps we can take to build a sustainable media landscape. Hosted by longtime podcasters and business owners Eric Silver and Amanda McLoughlin, Attach Your Résumé proves that the best credential for deciding the future of media is actually making stuff. New episodes every Thursday until we run out of episodes and have to go make more.