Substack and growth – has the platform figured out how to succeed?

There’s a thread going around written by Gergely Orosz who writes the #1 tech newsletter on Substack. In his thread, he mentioned why Substack makes a ton of sense for him because of the growth it provides his paid newsletter. In the example, he says the Substack Network provided him 23% growth last month and since it…

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The lesson from OnlyFans

In late April, The Information did a profile on OnlyFans newest CEO. Ami Gan, the former CMO of the infamous platform, took on a challenge unlike any other in her career. OnlyFans has more than 1,000 employees, on pace to $2.5B in revenue this year, and more than $350M in income, and it’s doubling year…

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What’s to come during hard times

The odds are the following: something like, yes, they (the Fed) can engineer a soft landing, a third of a percent chance. Probably a third of a percent chance they can engineer a mild recession…and then there’s a chance this could be much harder than that.”  – Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP MorganChase on 5/4/22…

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Video: Money Maker or Mistake?

TikTok is the most powerful network in the world right now.  The platform was the fastest app to get to 1B users in 2021, doing it in half the time it took Twitter and Instagram. But it’s not just teenagers spending hours scrolling — more than 30% of users had a household income of more…

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The Uncomfortable Truths of Journalism

Journalism has been a hot topic lately. Everything from fake news to censorship of journalists to venture capitalists launching their own media publications.  Why so much interest in journalism? “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment…

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The Cost of Goods in Digital Media

“Accounting is the language of business, and you have to be as comfortable with that as you are with your own native language to really evaluate businesses.” Warren Buffett Media businesses are, in general, simple businesses.  People create content. Content creates attention. Attention creates opportunities to monetize. But this simplicity is a masquerade for a…

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