Stratechery: The Paid Newsletter Pioneer Who Proved the Model from a Taipei Apartment
Ben Thompson launched Stratechery full-time from his Taipei apartment in 2014 with a three-tier subscription model. Twelve years later, he has 40,000+ paid subscribers, $5M+ annual revenue, and created Aggregation Theory — the most influential business framework in tech analysis since Clayton Christensen. Substack's seed-round pitch was literally 'Stratechery-in-a-box.'