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Henry Blodget on the media business in 2025
Episode 164

Henry Blodget on the media business in 2025

The Rebooting Show

May 20, 20251h 3mExplicit

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Show Notes

Henry Blodget built Business Insider into one of the few breakout successes of the traffic era. Now, with his new project Regenerator, he’s taking a different path—one that reflects the broader shifts in digital media. We talk about the collapse of platform-driven distribution, why subscriptions are a more durable model, how venture capital never quite fit the media business, and what it takes to build in the current environment of fragmented attention and AI disruption.

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