Twilio founder Jeff Lawson and, probably, the new owner of The Onion.
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- Satirical news website The Onion was sold to a company called Global Tetrahedron.
- Global Tetrahedron is also the name of a fictional evil megacorporation in a long-running Onion gag.
- But it's a real company, and Twilio founder Jeff Lawson appears to be behind it.
Jeff Lawson, the founder of cloud computing company Twilio, appears to have purchased the satirical news website The Onion from G/O Media.