Quality as a Service
For 104 years, Forbes has brought its readers along, often first, into the boardrooms of Edison and Ford, Jobs and Gates. While, as a policy, we don’t cover ourselves, it’s appropriate to confirm that Forbes recently announced plans to go public through a SPAC, Magnum Opus Acquisition—since the ultimate beneficiary, if we do our jobs right, is you. The deal should leave Forbes with up to $145 million on its balance sheet. The mandate: investing in great journalism—content and products that make you better informed, often entertained and maybe even richer. We’ll be empowered to create more of it, in more ways, on more platforms. Internally, we’re going to grow—and focus. Our reporters will report. Our number crunchers will crunch. Our data analysts will analyze. And so on. Breadth has always allowed…