The 45-Year-old journalist's "social news agency" made tens of millions of dollars in three years.

News Corp bought a Storyful, a start-up company based in Ireland on social media news, at $25 million a two months ago. The founder is actually a 45-year-old old entrepreneur. More than three years ago, Mark was originally a journalist, working on the stable state television in Ireland (RTE). He was determined to be a journalist at the age of 14, he had successfully contributed to the newspaper when he was a child, and later, he has had his wish to become a successful journalist as well as an anchor, from 20 years old into the company, has been 20 years. In an instant, he was 42 years old. Mark never thought he would start a business one day, until one day when he was still on TV, he saw some God-man on social media, "exploding in the social media with an exclusive photo and exclusive film." For example, the death of Jackson, the Obama campaign, a protest march in Iran, or some firsthand opinion or information. He described that when his correspondent colleagues saw that some of the people of God were "these news, more powerful than the reporters, got the precious photos or movies to send the internet, the entire media industry is really afraid" (terrified), so they began to study how to deal with "this trend." Most people in the media are thinking, what's the next step in a big news media? What's the next step in the press? What else can be done about this so-called civic news? More specifically, Mark is a little bit more self. He doesn't expect anything from his company, or the entire press. Instead, he was thinking, "What can I do?" How do I make this wave? How can I start doing something right away? So he thought of a simple concept that he could do at once--what was it? Basically, anyone can publish articles to social media, but so many articles, are they true or false? No one's going to confirm. Have。 If, now do a service, you can see the first time these users to provide photos, videos, and then, the first time to confirm that "these messages are correct?" This kind of thing, he alone "can do!" Then he intends to take these "the Gods of God" to find the news and sell them to the news media, they are not afraid ". So he began to do it at once. Storyful was founded. However, Mark mentioned that at first he and his press friends were talking about the idea and they thought he was crazy. Some people even laugh at me, no one to be his idea is the same thing, because, the general reporter, even if you see this phenomenon, will not feel that they can do. How can a person open a news agency? and the general entrepreneur, also do not know that the press has been so afraid of ", we just when these people are normal phenomenon, no one to think can sell these news to the big media." So, as a person can start to do, and no one thinks that a small reporter can replace the news media, Mark is naturally the world's first "start to do this thing, this matter does not evenName, which was later called News Verification "(Press confirmation Service), and his company Storyful became known as the world's first social news agency (social news Agency). It all happened in a short span of three years. Soon, he found that he was dealing with a limited amount of news, so he began to invite a person, two people, three people, to deal with more news. Start doing some technical things, such as filters, start automating, and handle more news. But the road to entrepreneurship is not so simple. For Mark, who does not know how to start a business, he apparently did not take the money for the main consideration, and he wanted to launch the service and sell it to the old medium of fear. But it backfired, his service was done, and with technology, it still needed a lot of people. Every day there are new news, he needs a lot of people to serve, and the old media although afraid, they are not afraid to buy "his news confirmation service." Mark had a crisis of two degrees, anxious to not pay in one months, the biggest crisis occurred just a year ago, almost to Christmas time, that time, he knew, could not survive Christmas. He had to cut off 50% of the manpower so his company could go on. That was not enough, and Mark even loaned his house, and then he ran the old media and ran more frequently. Sometimes good news happens at the lowest ebb. They gradually signed ABC News, the New York Times, and even ýoutube to become their clients. Three months ago, they finally started making money. And a few months ago, News Corp gave him the great news to buy Storyful 25 million dollars. He began to recall that, at his worst, his colleagues had asked him if he wanted to come back to this comfortable, well-paid Irish state television station. He can retire well! He can do a good job of being a highly paid and free advisor. But, at that time, he refused. Fortunately, he refused, this was originally laughed by the crazy reporter really rely on their own ", three years to make a big media to impress the company, but also in three years after a considerable wealth. This case, in the 2014 years of the year, made him the hero of Ireland, the world's many journalists envy the object. A lot of people think he might be in politics next, but he says it is possible to create another network career. Because he already knew that there are still a lot of big companies in the world can not do, he himself "could do!"