The Athletic

“I would just give any entrepreneur the advice of investing in comms. Someone who's wonderful on the comm side, and Taylor Patterson on our team, is just amazing. Keeps me honest. Keeps me trained, and dealing with the press is a job, and you have to have a str…”

“I think if you look at what happened with Substack, to just take a second to look at that business, and it's a wonderful product, a wonderful founding team, and they're much more competitive with, say, Medium. And we don't necessarily look at them as competito…”

“We'll be in the thousands of people, hopefully, over the next couple years, and sports is just one of those areas where the empire makes sense.”

“And so, those advantages, they seem small on paper, but here we are a year later, and we're well north of a 100,000 paying subscribers in the UK, building a really great product for fans all over the world.”

“And a 119 days later, we had 55 full-time employees in the UK, and we were launching.”

“To date, Alex has raised over one hundred and thirty nine million dollars with The Athletic from some of the best in the business, including Founders Fund, Bedrock, Y Combinator and Emerson Collective, to name a few.”

“Frankly, the CAC has been very workable. When you're a subscription business, you know, you're generating revenue off your subscribers. And so it works for us. It may not work if you're an advertising driven business, but absolutely works for us.”

“Michael Horvath, the founder of Strava, was our first check, but it was a smaller check, and then the next check was Charles Hudson at Precursor”

“Going from zero to 550 employees is used to write code, and thankfully they don't let me anymore, but now my job is communication, and all day long I must focus on communicating, and that is absolutely a full-time job.”

“Well, of those three that you listed, Vercel is by far our largest investment in terms of dollars, and of those, just worth the other ones by a significant amount.”