Bill Simmons – of Grantland and ESPN fame – once worked for someone – who worked for someone who – worked for someone who worked for someone who worked for me at Aol. 

I was one of the co-founders of Aol’s Digital City – Bob Smith and Paul DeBenedictus helped to create it – we opened a city operation in Boston – and Bill Simmons wrote a clever little column about Boston sports. He was a talent; very ambitious and quite a good writer. 

He got his start as did many other bloggers at Aol; back in the day. 

That is the history – Bill was discovered by Aol. 

Bet you didn’t know that?