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