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Ben Thompson’s Stratechery should have crossed $3 Million in Profits in 2020

10 min readMay 19, 2020

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Ben Thompson in 2018, taken from Wikipedia
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Some Old School Detective Work

he reported 1,500 for his “lifestyle business”, and in January 2015 Stratechery had 2,000 paid memberships. But since then, we haven’t got another official figure.

doing it for his paid newsletter.

Thompson’s chart for Spotify
Bundle economics at play
’s overview. (Feel free to correct any of my numbers.)

Caveats

Conference talk I witnessed in person

“Tech” is not Niche (anymore)

The Only Thing Working Right Now

Written Content seems still under-monetized compared to Audiovisual Content

Price Intelligently Survey (monthly tier has increased in the meantime)

The Web’s technical Building Blocks are not made for Subscriptions

Journalism needs less News, more Analysis

, , , , or to name a few I like to read.

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Andreas Stegmann
Andreas Stegmann

Written by Andreas Stegmann

👨‍💻 Product Owner ✍️ Writes mostly about the intersection of Tech, UX & Business strategy.

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