Medium
5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 1, 2016 by Alex Blumberg · said 65 times in 43 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nathan Latka (7), Lenny Rachitsky (6), Roy Mann (3), Tony Stubblebine (2), Sean Livermore (2), Nathan Berry (2), Michael Malavich (2), Mathilde Collin (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2025 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- LennysNewsletter On Building 45k List, 2.5k Slack Group, Monetization Strategies and Substack Future
- Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
- ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?
- ConvertKit's Shocking Growth to $25m Revenue, Power of Creator Economy
- The Secret Dataset CPG Gods Use
- Yac Is Audio Slack, Hits 10k Weekly Users, Raising $8m on $30m
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2018 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2017 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2016 37 mentions in 24 episodes 2 per episode
- How to Sell 10,000 Units of a Physical Product Fast with Cathryn and Allen Episode 192
- EP 404: $360k June 2016 MRR, $4M ARR, 5000 customers paying $72/mo on average with DaPulse founder Roy Man
- Growing to $50k/mo with Roost CEO Jon Gillon Ep 202
- EP 455: Exited in 2013, Now Moving From "Job" To Startup CEO Again. How? with Ariel Camus
- EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp
- He Invested in WeWork and Now Runs $150MM Israel Focused Fund, EP 291: Michael Eisenberg
- 28 Year Old Female Entrepreneur Making 100k's Product Images Better for $2 Each, EP 270: Holly Cardew
- Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
Everything said about Medium, oldest first
Feb 1, 2016 bullish
Blumberg: Podcasting will head toward premium television production values
“Our bet is that, you know, as this medium matures, that it's going to be heading in the direction of sort of premium television, that like, there's going to be, you know, higher and higher production values, more and more sort of like creative energy into crea…”
Nov 3, 2019
Dessaigne: Algolia powers search for Medium, Twitch, and Under Armour
“We basically help developers of website apps like Medium, Twitch, Under Armour, and many users, and power their internal search. So if you search on any of these companies you basically, you are basically using us behind the scene.”
Jan 16, 2021 negative
Rachitsky: Medium captures upside and SEO while withholding audience email addresses
“Why are you giving medium all of your content? They're gaining all of the upside, all of the SEO, all the subscribers. You don't get any email addresses of your audience. So you have no access if you leave. And so that was the benefit of sub stack. And it was …”
Apr 7, 2021 positive