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May 23, 2018·1 min read

Thank you for the concern, but your statement is incorrect. Our subscription model is working, and we are paying thousands of contributors and dozens of publishers more every month.

However, welcome to the party! We do need more experiments and solutions.

Ev Williams

CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas

You are all reading this on Medium, a beautiful blog site that’s struggling to figure out how to pay its top contributors. This problem isn’t new. It’s what Ethan Zuckerman called the Internet’s “original sin”, the fact th…

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