Coffee, meditation and then 20 minutes of crippling self-doubt.
Looking forward to it!
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Coffee, meditation and then 20 minutes of crippling self-doubt.
Looking forward to it!
I often speak about the media industry but rarely focus on what it's like to start and grow a business.
In this podcase, I got to talk more about the Industry Dive journey, some of our guiding principles, and a few lessons learned along the way.
notanotherceo.substack.com/p/sean-griff...
I'm always amazed that, given all the money spent on sports by major networks and streaming players that the Masters.org website remains the best streaming experience around. Just a really fantastic user experience.
Judging by the amount of commercials they ran before the opening bell, CNBC is living by the “don’t let a good crisis go to waste” maxim.
How much Trump Coin does this guy own?
www.reuters.com/world/us/nik...
Trump promoting Goya products in the Oval Office.
You know what goes well with a new Tesla? Beans.
I'm not the biggest design nerd but still find it curious that the WSJ uses green lines on this chart. Wouldn't a savvy business audience expect this to be in red?
Got a chance to appear on the The Rebooting podcast earlier this week. Mostly disappointed that we didn't get a chance to discuss the Eagles.
www.therebooting.com/b2b-lessons/
Fair…should learn more before blanket statements.
Was thinking of the B2B guys in particular.
I can’t see how this isn’t the outcome of all of these lawsuits. Of course the AI companies used protected content for the purpose of a commercial competitor.
Why isn’t this the number one priority of media associations?
www.wired.com/story/thomso...
Hero
B2C media companies seem to think creating B2B content will allow them to capture B2B dollars but it doesn't work that way.
Until they re-organize their sales teams and adjust monetization strategies, you can't take it seriously.
I riff more on it here.
www.amediaoperator.com/news/newswee...
Are the Bears trying to win?
I don't know much about Puck's finances but appreciate how they have balanced real ambition with steady, incremental growth.
Opportunistic with some hires and deliberate with expanded coverage areas. I don't agree with all of it but think they are doing a good job.
www.axios.com/2025/01/06/p...
There's a place in the world for Refinery29. Layoffs are never fun but if this is a step away from a programmatic business model, they will be better off in the long-run.
www.axios.com/2024/12/17/r...
Everyone I know is looking to hire sales people right now. That has to be an economic indicator of some type.
But sign me up to be an ambassador to a cool country. I don't even need it to be Italy, France, or the UK.
I'd take Uruguay or Argentina.
I honestly can't understand why so many billionaires want the headache of managing a government agency.
You couldn't pay me enough to want to be the Social Security Administration Commissioner.
www.axios.com/2024/12/06/t...
Probably need to explicitly say that not *everyone* using email growth hacks is a hack. There are people aggressive with it today who are building great brands...just not many of them.
(Don't want to insult some of my favorite entrepreneurs...just the shitty ones.)
Agreed.
But what will follow is a dozen articles decrying that email newsletters are dead. Not the case at all...they will be dead for people who don't offer a unique value proposition.
And that is probably a good thing. It will go back to being for people who really want to build a brand.
They wrongly think that they are building the next Morning Brew or The Skimm but those brands resonated with a demographic and had audiences. Most of these don't.
These brands will ultimately fail and newsletters as a platform will be blamed but this is an execution issue.
I believe that history repeats itself in media. A decade ago, dozens of media companies built traffic off the back of social platforms but never built a real audience. They failed.
Seeing people doing it today with newsletters. Dozens of 800k person newsletters with subs acquired for $2.
Thanks for reposting. Intended to do this last weekend but only got to it now.
I suspect that Bluesky has real users and threads has random people pushed there by the Meta machine.
Clarion has been aggressive in grabbing excellent hosted buyer event businesses over the last few years.
The real trick is to combine these events with true peer-to-peer communities and media. A huge opportunity to create a scaled next-gen B2B media company.
www.amediaoperator.com/news/clarion...
If I was forced to pick, I would do the DC layout here. But neither great.
AC Newman and band playing at The Miracle Theater in Washington, DC
Nothing better than being able to catch @acnewman.bsky.social in a small venue. Great show.
At what point do we have an honest conversation about dumping Embiid and just building around Maxey?
I think what much of the analysis is missing is that X just isn’t as useful as it used to be.
Even worse, it is boring. Massive engagement farming and crap shoved down your throat. The algorithm seems to favor a personas type that gives the most predictable takes. I’m just not interested in it.
Probably but this isn't a political statement for some. Personally, I'm just tired of the engagement farming and persona that seems to dominate X. It's boring...a bit like LinkedIn.
Honestly, I'm on Reddit more than anything now.