An Internet-era VC has relaunched Cracked magazine, redesigned to look and feel like Maxim — short articles, lots of photos. Good writers, too:
Even he wasn’t convinced it was a good idea at first when a friend suggested he consider buying Cracked.
“I said ‘not interested. It’s comics. It’s for little kids,'” Sarhan recalls. But the seed had been planted and “for the first time I stopped thinking about Cracked for what it was and started thinking about Cracked for what it could be and what the potential was.” …
Sarhan, who is 33, has gathered a stable of contributors that includes writers for “Saturday Night Live” and Comedy Central’s “Chappelle’s Show,” as well as the satirical author Neal Pollack and the actor Michael Ian Black, co-star of the former NBC comedy “Ed” and snarky commentator on VH1’s “I Love The…” series.
