Wired’s Steven Levy spoke with Lucia Moses of Digiday about his decision to join Medium to start a technology news website.
Here is an excerpt:
There are a lot of tech verticals out there today already. Any concern that the market’s pretty saturated already?
One thing I’ve learned is from listening to [Google CEO] Larry Page — he has a really interesting take on competition — and he says, “Why get hung up on what other people are doing if you go forward and work on what you think is best.” I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t think the kind of thing I wanted to build is out there already. Obviously, there’s a lot of great technology journalism, but people are going to look at what’s best.What’s Medium going to let you do that you can’t do at Wired?
I’ll do more of the kinds of things I’ve done for Wired: the 2,500-, 3,000-word ones where I get exclusive access to something like the product before the announcement date. I’ll also be able to do shorter kinds of things I haven’t been able to do for Wired … stuff that isn’t commodity journalism. The idea is, I’ll be able to build my own particular site there and have my sensibility permeate through the site. And I hope to be able to be a magnet for other people to use Medium. Also, one of the appeals of it is it’s not in this secure, established situation. It is something where all the answers aren’t there.
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