For one thing, all our writers are paid. (We believe that great writing should be valued.)

We're also trying to do a better job of driving targeted traffic to articles on our site. Since Medium accepts virtually all content, they can't make the smart investments in promotion and marketing that we're making. (We're also building some sophisticated technology for modeling these audiences across the web.)

Also, we offer editing services to all our writers. Hopefully this manifests in higher quality writing.