
Assorted musings and learnings of a Dev recently turned Evangelist.
Product: Online publishing platform for reading and writing long-form stories and ideas
Founders: Evan "Ev" Williams and Biz Stone (Twitter co‑founders)
Business model: Primarily supported by paid Medium memberships (not advertising or selling user data)
Monthly reach: Over 100 million people connect on Medium each month
Total funding: $132M (across multiple venture rounds)
Employees: 9,332
Online publishing and discovery of long-form content / social publishing
Online publishing / social publishing
$25M
Participation included Google Ventures and individual investors
$57M
Significant participation from Google Ventures and Greylock; other investors included Obvious Ventures and The Chernin Group
$50M
“Backed by prominent Silicon Valley venture firms including Greylock Partners, Google Ventures (GV), and Andreessen Horowitz”