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Chris Anderson (who wrote the widely-read piece about the long tail) left his editor-in-chief role at Wired to start a robotics company called 3D Robotics.
Anderson did leave WIRED to run 3D Robotics, but 3D Robotics already existed—he co-founded it in 2009, years before he stepped down at WIRED in 2012.
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The post states that Chris Anderson left his editor-in-chief job at WIRED “to start” 3D Robotics, implying the company was created after he departed.
However, contemporary coverage of his departure reports that he left WIRED (announcement dated November 2, 2012) to become CEO of 3D Robotics and explicitly notes that he had already co-founded the company in 2009. In other words, he did not leave WIRED in order to start (found) 3D Robotics; he left to run full-time a startup that had been founded years earlier.
This is a narrow but concrete factual mismatch about the timing/sequence of events (founding vs. later stepping down to run it).
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- Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson Steps Down to Run Robotics Startup | WIRED
WIRED reports on Nov. 2, 2012 that Anderson is leaving to become CEO of 3D Robotics, “a company he co-founded in 2009.”
- Longtime Wired Editor-In-Chief Chris Anderson Departing To Be Full-Time CEO At Robotics Startup | TechCrunch
TechCrunch (Nov. 2, 2012) says Anderson will become CEO of 3D Robotics, “a company he co-founded several years back.”
- 3D Robotics - Wikipedia
Wikipedia lists 3D Robotics as founded in 2009 and states it “was co-founded … in 2009 by Chris Anderson and Jordi Muñoz.”