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EPISODE · May 21, 2025 · 1H 3M

Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: The Future of Digital Content

from Venture with Grace · host Grace Gong

Tony Stubblebine is the CEO of Medium. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and with greater transparency. Ready to make your fund operations smoother? Visit Verivend.com and see how easy it can be.~~~~~He took the helm in July 2022 after a career as a serial entrepreneur and tech leader, including founding Coach.me and publishing Better Humans on Medium. Known for his focus on substance and human storytelling, Tony led Medium through a dramatic turnaround by prioritizing personal, thoughtful content and human curation over algorithm-driven clickbait and AI-generated material. Under his leadership, Medium surpassed one million paying subscribers and is on track to become profitable for the first time, thanks in part to strategic cost-cutting and a shift to a subscription-based model that values quality over hype. Topics: The evolution of online publishingNavigating AI in contentBuilding authority and audience#VC #Podcast #Medium #TonyStubblebine #Entrepreneurship #Tech

Tony Stubblebine is the CEO of Medium. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and with greater transparency. Ready to make your fund operations smoother? Visit Verivend.com and see how easy it can be.~~~~~He took the helm in July 2022 after a career as a serial entrepreneur and tech leader, including founding Coach.me and publishing Better Humans on Medium. Known for his focus on substance and human storytelling, Tony led Medium through a dramatic turnaround by prioritizing personal, thoughtful content and human curation over algorithm-driven clickbait and AI-generated material. Under his leadership, Medium surpassed one million paying subscribers and is on track to become profitable for the first time, thanks in part to strategic cost-cutting and a shift to a subscription-based model that values quality over hype. Topics: The evolution of online publishingNavigating AI in contentBuilding authority and audience#VC #Podcast #Medium #TonyStubblebine #Entrepreneurship #Tech

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