H. Kyle Hebenstreit

[John Collison @collision]

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

[Jacob Donnelly @JayCoDon]

Industry Dive is going to make ~$30m+ in profit this year on over $100m in revenue focusing on niches that the vast majority of us don't think about.

https://t.co/1OymLapg5O

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

James Bond is trending so here's ROGER MOORE in the greatest celebrity story ever. #JamesBond

[𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛 @jarroddicker]

signs everywhere.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Most people you meet will be less confident than they seem. So if you give people more encouragement than you'd expect them to need, you'll be about right.

[H. Kyle Hebenstreit @HKHebenstreit]

Chicago Public Media is set to acquire The Chicago Sun-Times. https://t.co/gFumBMN2Mu

[Matthew Kobach @mkobach]

“I don’t know enough to have an informed opinion” is something more people should regularly say

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Sometimes we don’t quite process that billions of people on the planet get unlimited entertainment, voice and video calling, maps, restaurant reviews, weather, news, an encyclopedia, mail, messaging, and more for *free* just because 1-2% of us click an ad every now and then.

[Web Smith @web]

Every media company will need a commerce operation. And every commerce company will need a media operation.

[Jacob Donnelly @JayCoDon]

Publishers should want to own the relationship with their advertisers. It moves the ad impression from a commodity to something a little more impactful.

[Jacob Donnelly @JayCoDon]

This is not the media barbell. On one side, you've got the Times, The Post, and WSJ. On the other, very niche publications focused on specific topics.

Insider and Axios are not that.

https://t.co/uQiQfXmw0a

[Sean Griffey @seangriffey]

An early lesson I learned was that if you solve someone else's problems, you'll get rewarded for it. Can be your customer's problems, your bosses, etc.

But no one cares if you solve your own. Trick to scaling a business is solving your own without impacting your customers.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

Every year, Donald Rumsfeld sent the IRS a letter like this one. Opinions will differ on his service but his view of the tax code should be a unifying aspect of his life.

[Sean Griffey @seangriffey]

I'm fine with this....but have crazy, ill-informed rants about all kinds of other things, too.

(But seriously, get control of your first party data.)

[Sean Griffey @seangriffey]

Check the response in this thread for a good breakdown of the differences between some innovative local media models.

Agree with @williamsjed - room for many of these today.

[Chelsea Pope @chelseathepope]

Woman riding next to Jeff Bezos into space

[Sean Griffey @seangriffey]

Love this piece on @agingmedia in today's Flashes & Flames.

How many hot and celebrated media companies have come and gone while they steadily built a tremendous business? We should be talking about folks like them more often.

https://t.co/cnZrxGPPoo