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500,000 - by Lenny Rachitsky - Lenny's Newsletter

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Ten lessons learned from building this newsletter

This week the newsletter hit 500,000 subscribers, which I’m told makes it among the top five largest newsletters on Substack and one of the largest newsletters broadly. Friggin’ bonkers. A big round number is a good time to reflect, so I’ve collected some lessons from my journey. I still only sort of know what I’m doing, and it’s unclear where this all goes, but if you’re thinking about embarking on a writing journey, or are just curious about this path, I hope you find this useful. To everyone who reads this newsletter, has been a paid subscriber, or has even just shared a post with a…

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