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A paid newsletter that's read by a large portion of the tech world

• mooreds 5y ago
  > read by a large portion of the tech world Hmmm. I might take issue with that statement. While the author of Stratechery doesn't seem to have any public numbers, from https://stratechery.com/about/ https://stratechery.com/about/ "Stratechery has subscribers from over 85 different countries, including executives in both technology and industries impacted by technology, venture capitalists and investors, and thousands of other people interested in understanding how and why the Internet is changing everything." Hmmm. "Thousands"? So let's round up and call it 10k. From the BLS, approximately 178k Computer Programmers in 2020 in the US: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151251.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151251.htm Just programmers, just in the US. So 10k is ~5% of programmers in the USA. That's not a 'large' number in my understanding, and that ignores everyone outside of the USA and everyone who is in tech in the USA but not a programmer. It's hard to find global numbers from a reliable source, but googling around indicates that there are millions of people in the tech sector worldwide.