The business model for media is broken. Full stop. When was the last time you felt good sitting through a YouTube ad? Or enjoyed having your favorite podcast interrupted with a pre-recorded ad? Or watched a creator you love shill products they don't use? The reality is that content creators have been trapped in a painful paradox: to make money from their passion, they must first build a massive audience—and then immediately compromise the very content that built that audience in the first pla...

The business model for media is broken. Full stop. When was the last time you felt good sitting through a YouTube ad? Or enjoyed having your favorite podcast interrupted with a pre-recorded ad? Or watched a creator you love shill products they don't use? The reality is that content creators have been trapped in a painful paradox: to make money from their passion, they must first build a massive audience—and then immediately compromise the very content that built that audience in the first pla...