Tony Stubblebine (Medium CEO), Hire Me.

Posted by slymerson on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:09AM
from the self-post dept.

I'm the guy who created the post asking why Medium failed, it prompted you to respond and I applaud you for responding, but you clearly don't know what's actually wrong. You only need to read 30 more comments underneath your reply to start finding out that the main problems your company has are NOT the main points you made.

I've been a long-time user of Medium, and I've been studying what makes a social blogging platform succeed by interviewing the people who actually use Medium. I have excellent ideas on how to make the company succeed. I know how to fix it.

I'm asking for a shot. I want to see Medium succeed, and I would love to help you see it through.

I'll settle for anything, as long as I can help Medium become the platform it used to be.

I will literally fly to Medium HQ today just to have a shot.

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Re:Tony Stubblebine (Medium CEO), Hire Me. by osigurdson on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:25AM (#34753697)

I didn't read through all of the comments in that post (not a heavy medium user myself), but agree that the response from the CEO seemed highly myopic.

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Re:Tony Stubblebine (Medium CEO), Hire Me. by tipiirai on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:52AM (#34753958)

Exactly. They strive for revenue, not UX.

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Re:Tony Stubblebine (Medium CEO), Hire Me. by phphphphp on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:54AM (#34753981)

As a Medium user… I look more positively on the comment from the CEO. He described high-level strategy that has influenced the decisions made which created the pain points described by users in that thread. A minutiae obsessive leader doesn’t create a good long-lasting company: we have to give the CEO time to drive the company in a positive direction based on a strategy.

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Re:Tony Stubblebine (Medium CEO), Hire Me. by satyrnein on Saturday February 11, 2023 @11:57AM (#34754018)

Half the comments in that thread only got as far as:

  1. Take down paywall
  2. ???
  3. Profit!

Hopefully you have better suggestions!

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