"The new site was invite-only, but outsiders could read from various collections."

"Medium, he said, was ""a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends."""

"""it helps you find the right audience for whatever you have to say."""

"From the outside, Medium's strategy has seemed to be the following: 1) Create a beautiful, simple blogging platform, which Medium most certainly is. 2) Very slowly release control of who can use Medium to create cachet. 3) Pay some people to post to the site, but not most of them. (Sub-strategy: Don't disclose who's working for Medium and who's working on Medium.) 4) Promote the people they've paid along with a very small subset of everyone else."

"Medium seemed to be a machine for generating the kind of passaroundable content that does so well on Twitter. You want a smart ""second-day"" take on the news? Oh, here's this post on Medium."