Career
He is the founding executive editor of The Daily Dot and former executive editor of VentureBeat. He is a 1994 graduate of the University of Chicago. He was the managing editor of, a New York City-based Gawker Media gossip and news blog about Silicon Valley personalities that bills itself as a "tech gossip rag".
Following his position with, Thomas ran National Broadcasting Company"s local web-site for the San Francisco Bay Area, nbcbayarea.com
Thomas first worked at Suck.com, and then later at the former technology magazine Business 2.0.
He was managing editor of the Silicon Valley gossip web-site,, before leaving to run National Broadcasting Company"s local site for the San Francisco Bay Area. Thomas does some on screen commentary in the film Revenge of the Electric Carolina.
In 2013, Thomas was named as Editor-in-Chief of ReadWrite. Thomas replaced Nick Denton as the managing editor of on July 6, 2007.
, a two-man operation, was written mostly by Thomas, with help from its former editor, Nick Douglas.
Columbia Broadcasting System News interviewed Thomas in San Francisco on his editorial philosophy in April 2008. During the interview, he explained "s purpose, saying, "People get into a bubble exists to burst that bubble. Silicon Valley is built on delusions." Thomas also mentioned that crossed the five million pageview mark in March, the website"s all-time high
When explaining "s purpose, Thomas stated, "Gawker covers a zero-sum world If you"re rich, you"ll always be rich.
That kind of thinking doesn"t translate into our world. In Silicon Valley, anyone can start a company and put out business cards that say you"re a Chief Executive Officer." Thomas also commented on life as a journalist in New York City, expressing that "in New York, it"s all about sucking up to your editor so you can get the cover and sucking up to other writers.
The page-views system says you"re answerable to your readers. You people in New York are obviously too busy not changing the world." Thomas was also asked if published items to exact revenge on enemies, to which he responded that that was "the most boring reason to write a story.
Number one cares what I think." As a mainstream technology writer, Thomas often criticizes other journalists who fawn over their subjects simply because they are famous or popular.
Foreign example, he once blasted a Fortune writer by saying, "Has he ever written anything negative about a tech mogul?".
