[troisx]

Is there some reason you want to see Ev succeed? He sounds like another egomaniacal founder who doesn't care about his friends (Noah Glass) or employees. And it sounds like he's pretty good at coming up with products people love but pretty bad at getting them to have revenue that beats expenses (Twitter, Medium).

[DigitalSea]

I think Ev is a brilliant mind. For comparison, Steve Jobs is often cited as being brilliant and a visionary, but he was an egomaniac as well. The difference being, Steve Jobs was celebrated as a genius. I don't think Ev is on the same playing field as Jobs, but there are some parallels here.

Twitter started off as a great platform, then once the investors came on board it started going down hill. I think there is hope for Medium, it will take more than Ev to make it a profitable company though.