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Tony Stubblebine

CEO, Medium · 1 appearance on the record.

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Tony Stubblebine is the CEO of Medium, overseeing the platform's content strategy and creator policies. He previously co-founded Coach.me, served as VP of engineering at Odeo, and authored the Regular Expression Pocket Reference.

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1 prediction · 5 assertions · 3 opinions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 6 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Everything Tony Stubblebine said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Stubblebine: Twitter's early turnover was team upgrading, not co-founder feuds
“It wasn't that the co-founders were feuding at the, or that there was any sort of scandal. It was just, they're constantly trying to upgrade the team in order to keep up with what Twitter ended up being, which, you know, obviously had nothing to do with where …”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 3:32 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
Opinion
Stubblebine: Jack Dorsey was the only reliable employee at Odeo
“The you know, the whole team was really chaotic, and I mostly spent time dealing with other people's problems, and Jack was the only reliable person.”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 16:55 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
Opinion
Stubblebine: Hatching Twitter has minor factual errors but feels broadly true
“The book itself is basically true. The story rang true. A lot, all, almost all of the facts that I knew about were wrong in some minor way as I read the book, but the actual story of it felt true.”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 3:06 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
Insight
Consumer eyeball startups now require 50 to 100 million active users
“The standards for an eyeball business, when I started working in startups in 2005 was our rule of thumb is if you got 300,000 users, you are guaranteed at least a major acquisition. And now if you can't get 50 or a hundred million users, you're not really anyt…”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 5:20 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
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Stubblebine: Coach.me hit a 5% freemium conversion rate in early testing
“We were running the free side of the challenge and the paid side. And our conversion rate was like five percent. So, you know, like in freemium conversion, like you're lucky if you get to three percent.”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 7:49 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
Disclosure
Coach.me takes 50% on marketplace leads and 10% to 30% on coach-sourced clients
“We take a cut of the coaching. All the coaching happens through our online tools, and we take, if we bring the client, we bring a ton of the clients, we take 50%, and then if they if they bring the client, they take somewhere between 70 and 90%.”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 9:08 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
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Coach.me grew from $82k in 2014 to a projected $2M in 2016
“And so in in 2014, we are, we grossed 82,000 dollars. In 2014. And in 2015 we gross 650,000 dollars, and in 2016 we think we'll gross two million dollars.”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 11:13 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
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Stubblebine: Coach.me Pays 150 Coaches Monthly
“What I would say is we pay out to a 150 per month and we probably have 10 or 20 that take it really seriously.”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 12:05 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
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Stubblebine: Coach.me Net Burn Is $20K Per Month
“It's like. 20,000 dollars a month.”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 13:07 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
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Stubblebine: Coach.me Doubled User LTV From $42 to $90
“And so our original LTVs were like 42 dollars per user. I really remember that number per year. Per year. And so I was like, shit, this is not like, we got to get this quality up. And we started digging into it. We did this round of, oh, well, there's a bunch …”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 15:39 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine
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Stubblebine refused Hatching Twitter interviews to write his own book
“You know, for the book Hatching Twitter, I'm the only person at Odeo who refused to be interviewed for that book, and basically I did it so that I could write my own book one day.”
Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 ▶ 2:26 Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine

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Appearances (1)

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Jack Dorsey's Last Boss Tells True Story in Episode 191 with Tony Stubblebine Mar 6, 2016 13m
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