The Next Media Moguls: The Most Successful Media Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Secrets

I interviewed 25 of the world's most successful media entrepreneurs, and they walked me through, step by step, how they built their businesses. This book contains over 53,000 words and 182 pages worth of insights that you can use in building your own media business.

This book is available as a PDF.

Chapters include:

1. This former TV writer now produces prestige audio dramas for Audible, iHeart, and Spotify
2. This independent magazine publisher doubled down on print
3. This media startup is trying to reach readers exhausted by political noise
4. The 30-year-old PDF newsletter with a 98% market penetration rate
5. This product review blog pivoted to video to protect itself from AI
6. How a niche YouTube channel became a multi-platform travel business
7. How a yoga teacher turned bedtime stories into a media empire
8. How Axios Local is leveraging AI to expand into smaller cities
9. How a professional voice actor built a hit indie game studio
10. This former Disney exec's podcast company generates 100 million monthly downloads
11. The nonprofit news playbook that starts with major donors, not memberships
12. The unlikely local media giant you’ve probably never heard of
13. How a mortgage newsletter became a modern B2B media company
14. The subscription strategy behind one of Britain’s fastest-growing local news startups
15. How a Colorado Springs food critic built a sustainable one-man media business
16. How 1440 built a 4-million-subscriber newsletter empire by obsessing over unit economics
17. How a former institutional investor built a six-figure media business — and then pivoted into fintech
18. How Salesforce Ben built a 20-person media company around enterprise software
19. How Joe Pulizzi built a media business servicing the Creator Economy
20. How Brad Hargreaves turned a real estate newsletter into a six-figure media and data business
21. How Austria’s biggest explainer podcast built a sustainable independent media business
22. How a cloud computing consultant built a community-first media business focused on Microsoft software
23. How a CFO turned accounting jargon into a 75,000-subscriber media business
24. Inside the rise of Australia’s biggest social-first news brand
25. How a teenage gamer built a 60-million-reader media empire