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The essay, free to read:

“Skift is an extended argument for a particular way of being in the world: intellectually rigorous, commercially viable, editorially independent, globally aware, personally authentic.” My most personal essay I have written for Skift post-Covid, on our journey 13 years in.

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We have the big one, @ZohranKMamdani on NYC tourism and plans for growth if he gets elected as Mayor. I talked to him yesterday, fascinating how deeply he has thought about it.

The YT full video:

Right after this clip where he explains his rationale on why it makes sense for them, I pushed back and he seemed to admit: the services are primarily for the travelers staying on Airbnb, for now, though he hopes it will be adopted by locals. I thought he was open about whether

My @skift Global Forum interview with @bchesky is the only full length video we see releasing from the Forum for free, rest is clips and full length for subscribers only. Amongst his most revealing interviews he has ever done, I can guarantee. Link to YT in next tweet.

AND @amediaoperator did a great story on us, the state of @skift 13 years in:

Our announcement and details here:

Back on to share this, big day at @skift: we’ve acquired two companies: Women Leading Travel & Hospitality membership & events biz AND https://t.co/1FpYnDfkmZ, a podcasting studio. 13 years in, we’ll hit $25mn revenue & about 20% margins this year, heads down executing.

More details below https://t.co/ms7QUc0VtD

Hard not to be bullish about @skift and what @rafat keeps building: — should hit $25M in rev, 20% EBITDA — just closed 2 small acquisitions (more likely coming) — repeatable event models that have scaled globally Some of the nuggets from new @JayCoDon coverage on AMO

“Despite surface differences, each outlet follows the same modern B2B media blueprint: premium paywalls first, high-margin extensions second, tiny newsrooms zero dependence on programmatic ads, all three have landed in that $25-40 million “boutique intel” sweet spot.”

I asked ChatGPT to come up with estimates & compare strategies of three of *the* most premium business media/info companies: @theinformation, @BoF & of course @Skift. Fascinatingly, all in similar topline range if this is accurate-ish, with three contrasting ways to get there.

Words matter, because they are the cause dehumanization. Yesterday, I walked past a bus stop ad in Astoria — my NYC neighborhood celebrated as one of the most diverse places on Earth—and felt my heart drop. This ad read: “Adopt a teen. You can’t imagine the reward.” But someone

What Pete Buttigieg Wants Airline CEOs to Know, the @skift interview https://t.co/El19Mg6l9a via @Skift

This is one of our guilty pleasure channels on YT, the guy’s enthusiasm for cooking is infectious and rural cooking is so soothing.

I haven’t had cable connection since 2009, but now for our household cord-cutting is not even watching Netflix/Hulu etc, and instead my wife and I watch YT videos together in eve, podcasts and ilk. Curious how much streaming TV cutting going on…

Devote your life to venerating a political party and a political leader, be allowed to crawl in to get a head pat as a reward, then post a picture of it as if it is something to be proud of rather than it being proof of your loyal demeaning servitude.

Federal officials are now saying the New Orleans attacker acted alone. Doesn't this directly contradict what they said about several people planting IEDs? Can't say I'm impressed by the changing stories from officials on this. He had accomplices! He acted alone! It was all