Stratechery
Ben Thompson’s subscription newsletter and podcast on the business of technology.
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- Stratechery is a subscription newsletter and podcast by Ben Thompson on the strategy and business of technology and media.
- Thompson started it as a blog while working at Microsoft and went full time on it in April 2014.
- Recode said in 2017 that it pioneered the paid newsletter business model.
Key facts
- Full time
- April 20141
- Model
- Freemium subscription; more than 2,000 paying subscribers by April 20151
- Influence
- Substack’s founders called Thompson a major inspiration1
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