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...
