It's worth noting that this profile was published at about the same time Medium started cutting off publisher memberships: http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/medium-abruptly-cancels-the...

The NYTimes author's response: https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/994634637451415601

> Gotten a lot of smart criticism since this piece ran. Agree that @ev’s grand plans should be evaluated in light of Medium’s history of sudden strategy shifts and the writers/publishers who get hurt by them.