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Ev Williams

Medium member since Feb 2017

CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, thinker of thoughts

Ev Williams
Editor of 3 min read, Obvious Ventures
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Apr 5

The Medium Model

How we are building a system for high-quality publishing at scale

In “The rationalization of publishing,” I argued that subscriptions for publishing on a wide scale are inevitable — and that’s a good thing. Now I will describe…

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Apr 3

The rationalization of publishing

Now that the ad-only experiment has decidedly failed, quality information providers will be able to build strong businesses, and consumers will be better served than ever

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Apr 3
Is there some special reason why shares are not found in the Medium stats Ev Williams?
Michael K. Spencer
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It’s a good question. Although, technically, shares are not valuable. Traffic from shares is valuable. But both are pretty easy to game. And if we were to start paying out on them, we would have to fight that gaming.

Less gameable would be subscriptions, to your point: “If I’m writing behind a paywall, I’m not just creating…

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