Owen Thomas of Valleywag reports that John Koten, the CEO of the parent company that oversees business magazines Fast Company and Inc., may be leaving the company.
“After a late-night email sent by Koten urging his employees to interview him to ‘show some respect’ got leaked earlier this month, Koten ‘had his assistants move all of his stuff into a cubicle outside his office,’ the tipster told us. Joe Mansueto, the founder of mutual-fund research firm Morningstar and owner of Fast Company and Inc., works from a cubicle. ‘After several years of working out of an office now seems a really weird time to become ‘a man of the people,” our tipster notes.
“Koten has an erratic reputation. One media veteran familiar with his career calls him ‘one of the unheralded geniuses of the magazine business’ but also the ‘laziest man in the world.’ Legend has it that the devoted sailor once turned down a promotion at the Wall Street Journal that would have had him move from Chicago to New York because of the cost of berthing his boat.”
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