Dave Portnoy (from Twitter post)
Dave Portnoy, the founder and owner of Barstool Sports, held a celebration at the news that Henry Blodget was out as CEO of the website Insider, which he co-founded in 2007. Blodget left as Insider returned to its previous name – Business Insider.
The reasons for Henry Blodget’s departure are not relevant, at least not to Dave Portnoy. Portnoy was ecstatic that the man, whom Portnoy sees as his nemesis, was out. The Barstool Sports founder feels that Henry Blodget was unkind to him over the years, to say the least.
So, how should a rich and successful 46-year-old man celebrate such news? Well, if you are Dave Portnoy then you post a video of yourself without a shirt lounging by a swimming pool with a bottle of champagne in which you curse the man, of course.
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The champagne was Dom Perignon Vintage 2010 with Henry Blodget’s name written on it.
“This is a guy who’s a crook, got kicked off Wall Street, telling people to buy stocks while sending emails saying they’re trash, stealing your grandmother’s money,” Dave Portnoy said in reference to Henry Blodget’s onetime legal troubles.
Portnoy also mentioned how Blodget once “stole healthcare from all of his employees. They had to strike against him. I joined that strike.”
As for the return to Business Insider’s original name, “They changed the name of the company from Insider back to Business Insider cause your little game of trying to ruin people, and being the crook and the scumbag and the piece of shit that you’ve been you’re entire f’king life you tiny little scrawny dork.”
So, why does Dave Portnoy hate him so much?
Well, Portnoy says that Henry Blodget was responsible for a Business Insider “hit piece” against the Barstool Sports founder in 2021 when it published a story about several women who accused Portnoy of sexual assault.
“The guy who tried to run me out of town with a hit piece because that’s what he did at Business Insider. They try to get cheap clicks, fake stories.”
And Dave Portnoy admitted that he is the type of person who “enjoys seeing my enemies fail if something bad happens to them, or I feel like we’ve defeated them — professionally speaking.”
