Anthony Scaramucci Announces Mystery Media Venture
“It’s the Walter Cronkite space, the space in the middle where there’s a level of objectivity.”
Guests at the party, held beneath a mirrored ceiling dotted with festive red lights, included
a number of Scaramucci supporters, among them employees of his hedge fund, SkyBridge Capital.
His partner in the venture, a former hedge fund manager turned social media consultant named Lance Laifer, stood nearby, urging Mr. Scaramucci to speak into an iPhone
that was transmitting the proceedings via streaming video.
“It’s going to start out experiential on the net,” Mr. Scaramucci, an American flag pinned
to his lapel, said during a launch party at the Hunt & Fish Club on West 44th Street.
On Monday evening, he was a man with his arm in a sling, explaining how the moon landing led to the invention of Tang
and Velcro (it didn’t) to reporters in the mirrored basement of a Midtown Manhattan steakhouse that he partially owns.
Nine weeks ago, Anthony Scaramucci was still the communications director to the president, flying on Air Force One
and steering the public relations strategy of the White House.