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• Bartweiss 10y ago
  > "It’s the best writing environment on the web, and they sweat the details like nobody else." > "Especially for anyone who moved to Medium but hedged their bets by keeping their own domains." The claim here isn't that Medium is bad, or even not excellent. It's that they took >$100 million in VC money with no real plan to monetize, and so they're doomed regardless of product quality.
• draw_down 10y ago
  And?
• khazhou 10y ago
  That's consistent with DHH's message: the product is fantastic, but the business story was artificially propped up by VC $$$.