Lists

Top 100 Business Newsletter Operators

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001
Lenny Rachitsky
product/growth essays / Lenny's Newsletter
002
Justin Welsh
solopreneur systems / The Saturday Solopreneur
003
David Perell
writing & internet ideas / Monday Musings
004
Packy McCormick
tech-strategy essays / Not Boring
005
Byrne Hobart
finance + tech essays / The Diff
006
Matt Levine
finance commentary / Money Stuff (Bloomberg)
007
Ben Thompson
tech strategy aggregation theory / Stratechery
008
Eric Newcomer
VC scoops / Newcomer
009
Alex Kantrowitz
Big Tech / Big Technology
010
Ranjan Roy & Can Duruk
markets + tech / Margins
011
Kyla Scanlon
econ explainer / Kyla's Newsletter
012
Joey Politano
applied econ / Apricitas
013
Noah Smith
econ commentary / Noahpinion
014
Tyler Cowen
econ + culture / Marginal Revolution
015
Alex Tabarrok
econ + culture / Marginal Revolution
016
Jason Lemkin
SaaS GTM / SaaStr
017
Reforge / Brian Balfour
growth/PMF essays / Reforge
018
Rand Fishkin
SEO + audience / SparkToro
019
Glen Allsopp
SEO secrets / Detailed
020
Amanda Natividad
zero-click marketing / SparkToro
021
Ann Handley
content marketing / Total Annarchy
022
Jay Acunzo
premise-led content / Unthinkable
023
Harry Dry
marketing examples / Marketing Examples
024
Tom Critchlow
independent consulting / Tom Critchlow
025
Khe Hy
knowledge work / RadReads
026
Polina Marinova Pompliano
profiles / The Profile
027
Sahil Bloom
wealth + life / The Curiosity Chronicle
028
Codie Sanchez
boring biz acquisition / Contrarian Thinking
029
Nick Huber
boring biz operator / The Sweaty Startup
030
Sieva Kozinsky
search funds / Sieva's Letter
031
Trung Phan
business breakdowns / SatPost
032
Alex Garcia
marketing teardown / Marketing Examined
033
Tim Stoddart
content + property / Stoddart Letter / Copyblogger
034
Brian Clark
content business / Further
035
Cole Schafer
copywriting / Sticky Notes
036
Nicolas Cole
writing leverage / The Saturday Edition
037
Tim Denning
creator-monetization / Tim Denning
038
Salman Ansari
engineering-leader essays / Salman's Newsletter
039
Lethain (Will Larson)
eng leadership / Irrational Exuberance
040
Gergely Orosz
eng-management deep-dives / The Pragmatic Engineer
041
Jason Cohen
bootstrapped strategy / A Smart Bear
042
Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
fintech essays / Bits about Money
043
Marc Rubinstein
financials of finance / Net Interest
044
Lillian Li
China tech / Chinese Characteristics
045
Dan Wang
China tech & policy / Dan Wang Letters
046
Doug O'Laughlin
semiconductors / Fabricated Knowledge
047
Dylan Patel
semis + AI infra / SemiAnalysis
048
Azeem Azhar
exponential tech / Exponential View
049
Benedict Evans
tech analysis slides + essays / Benedict's Newsletter
050
Mario Gabriele
VC + tech essays / The Generalist
051
Turner Novak
VC + memes / The Split
052
Pomp (Anthony Pompliano)
investing + crypto / The Pomp Letter
053
Ryan Selkis
crypto / Messari (Theses)
054
Jordan Schneider
China tech-policy / ChinaTalk
055
Helen Lewis
culture + business / The Bluestocking
056
Mary Harrington
culture / Reactionary Feminist
057
Matt Yglesias
political-economy / Slow Boring
058
Derek Thompson
applied econ-culture / The Atlantic + Plain English newsletter
059
Anne Helen Petersen
culture + work / Culture Study
060
Charlie Warzel
tech + power / Galaxy Brain
061
Casey Newton
*(see #9)*
062
Liz Hoffman
finance journalism / Semafor Business
063
Andrew Ross Sorkin
DealBook newsletter / NYT DealBook
064
Ben Smith
media business / Semafor Media
065
Lucy Kellaway
management satire / FT
066
Gillian Tett
anthropology of finance / FT
067
Helen Thomas
Lex column / FT
068
John Authers
markets / Bloomberg "Points of Return"
069
Joe Wiesenthal
*(see podcasters)*; *Bloomberg "Five Things"* secondary
070
Robin Wigglesworth
markets nerd / Alphaville (FT)
071
Bryce Elder
Alphaville editor / FT Alphaville
072
Izabella Kaminska
fintech-skeptic / The Blind Spot
073
Frances Coppola
banking / Coppola Comment
074
Cullen Roche
monetary realism / Pragmatic Capitalism
075
Joachim Klement
investing research / Klement on Investing
076
Michael Batnick
investing notes / The Irrelevant Investor
077
Ben Carlson
investing behavior / A Wealth of Common Sense
078
Jamin Ball
cloud SaaS metrics / Clouded Judgement
079
Mostly Metrics (CJ Gustafson)
finance for operators / Mostly Metrics
080
Cory Ames
mission-driven business / Grow Ensemble
081
Anu Atluru
culture, communities / Working Theorys
082
Toby Shorin
internet culture / Subculture Capital / Other Internet
083
Drew Austin
urbanism + tech / Kneeling Bus
084
Venkatesh Rao
strategy + culture / Ribbonfarm / Contraptions
085
Visakan Veerasamy
friendship/network essays / Visakan's Newsletter
086
Adam Singer
marketing/culture / Hot Takes / Adam Singer's Newsletter
087
Heather Cox Richardson
political-economy history / Letters from an American
088
Antonio Garcia Martinez
tech + power / The Pull Request
089
Yancey Strickler
internet futures / Ideaspace / Metalabel
090
Sari Azout
knowledge work + tools-for-thought / Check Your Pulse
091
Semil Shah
VC notes / Semil's Substack / Haystack
092
David Mattin
applied futures / New World Same Humans
093
Amy Webb
futures + strategy / FTSG newsletter
094
Dror Poleg
work + real-estate futures / Hype-Free
095
Eli Dourado
innovation + supply-side / Eli Dourado's Newsletter
096
Andrew Wilkinson
holding-co operator notes / Never Enough
097
Kris Abdelmessih
quant intuition / Moontower
098
Steph Smith
trends + indie tech / The Steph Smith Show / Trends.vc reports
099
Stew Fortier
writing-as-leverage / Foster.co / Stew's Letter
100
Dan Frommer
consumer tech business / The New Consumerist