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A weekly(-ish) newsletter on commerce, media, science, tech, investing, & internet culture by Alex Taussig. I am a partner at Lightspeed in Silicon Valley.
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Engagement Rate
0.00%
Finance category average
Quality Score
Engagement vs Finance
0.00%category median
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vs 272 newsletters in Finance
9K places you in the top 25% of newsletters in this category.
Posts per Week
0.0
median: 1.1
Subscribers
9K
median: 2K
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Start tracking — freeWe don't have enough growth data for Drinking from the Firehose yet. The average Finance newsletter has 2K subscribers.
Based on 1.1K Finance newsletters tracked
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Publishing Frequency
Unknown
Finance Pricing
$10/mo median
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Monetization Readiness
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