Medium raises $25 million

I guess this is the direct counter-argument to my comment in the thread about Svtle.<p>Is it true that people actually don&#x27;t care about keeping ownership over their content? I find it so strange that these services which are pitched directly at people who consider themselves to be brilliant also become the archive for your stuff. It just seems like a conflict of interest when, yes, what exactly is their game plan?

Most of the posts on medium are so poorly written or blatantly false I just avoid the whole domain now. So in my eyes they have a lot of work to do to fix their branding.

&quot;Ideally, Williams envisions Medium much like a magazine creative director, inviting the types of items that may show up in a magazine, from features to top-ten lists to cartoons to even video.&quot;<p>Good. The internet needs more top 10 lists.

I think mediums UI is nice, but as far as i can tell, you cant include code snippets so its almost useless for blogging about programming - until the change that, I am going to continue to use jekyll.

So, you can type text into a box and people can comment on it. And it has a nice font.<p>My startup idea is that we sell chairs, but the chairs are nicer than some other chairs and they say &#x27;chair&#x27; on them. Can I get $25 million too?

A closed source, curated and content ceded blog platform, ..is this a sign that the internet has come full circle..again

The personnel are impressive, and it&#x27;s a great service, but what is their game plan?

The cool thing is Ev is rich enough now to pay back the full $25M personally if he decides to pull another Odeo&#x2F;Twitter.<p>...though I imagine most investors will keep their money in play this time :-)

Why would a billionaire, proven operator and executor raise a round?

Are we in a bubble or what.

Does medium have any current revenue stream or any plans for revenue?

Great for them. I&#x27;m curious - how much of this is based on the quality of the service, versus the quality of the founders?

My deficit for being European: How the hell are expecting the investors to make money out of this?!?!?!

If only medium would produce something...other than blog posts...