Business journalism
[1] began as early as the Middle Ages to help well-known trading families communicate with each other.
In 1882 Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser began a wire service that delivered news to investment houses along Wall Street. And in 1889, The Wall Street Journal began publishing.
They created the foundation for others to build upon.
Somewhere along the way, business journalism became more about telling one's own version of the story than the actual story. The beautiful and virtuous qualities of journalism turned into an avenue for legacy media companies to score political capital and make personal attacks against the businesses they covered.
So, we decided we're going to do what we never do. We're going to go for it.
We started writing business stories for a small group of friends, and the group has since grown into tens of thousands of people.
These are the poeple that motivate us to keep going.
We believe that beneath the surface of every stock ticker and earnings report lies a story worth telling. Behind every company's breakout success was years of execution against an initial hunch—a strategy. Behind every growing market, a series of interconnected trends and decisions coming together at the right time.
Boring Business Nerd is more than a newsletter. It's an invitation to see the business world differently.
Insightful, fun, accurate.
Each edition is crafted with care and the culmination of hours of work.
We want to do great work. That is our commitment to you.
