📂 How The Generalist got 41,000 subscribers...

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Recently the founder of The Generalist, a tech newsletter, wrote about how he got to 41,000 subscribers.

Mario Gabriele 🦊 @mariogabriele Today, The Generalist has 41K subscribers and has done $300K in revenue this year. It's a sustainable, growing business. But there's so much I wish I'd known. THREAD: 8 takeaways from 1Y of running a newsletter pic.twitter.com/NqC6Dg7Edk September 2nd 2021 34 Retweets 495 Likes

There were a few inflections points, namely:

• Launching on Product Hunt
• A viral Twitter thread about Red Bull

But for the most part, it's about consistently shipping content and sharing that content across multiple channels.

Check out Mario's note about consistency:

It doesn't matter how many splashes you make or how big those splashes are... you have to give it time.

Here's the full article if you want to dig into it more.

—Corey

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