Ev Williams

Our approach to member-only content

As a Medium member, you’ll have access to member-only stories about a range of topics and ideas that matter. While this exclusive content aspect of your subscription will start small — with the first pieces coming next week — it will become a dominant feature over…

I was once talking to an engineering manager who used to work at Amazon — rather famously, a hard-driving culture. She was then working at a new company and talking about a situation where there was a bad production bug that her team was responsible for. Her team did not seem to be attacking it with proper vigor. They left at 6pm the day this bug…

Renewing Medium’s focus

We’ve decided to make some major changes at Medium.

I’ll start with the hard part: As of today, we are reducing our team by about one third — eliminating 50 jobs, mostly in sales, support, and other business functions. We are also changing our business model to…