The Information is nine years old

Greetings,

2022 has turned out to be an annus horribilis of epic proportions for Silicon Valley and the global technology sector.

The collapse of the cryptocurrency economy. A seizing up in startup funding. The obliteration of trillions of dollars in market value from the industry’s lumbering giants like Meta. Twitter takeover by the industry’s most unstable CEO.

As one CEO recently put it to me: “Can we just erase the whole year?”

Wouldn’t that be convenient. Alas, tech has a hole to come out of. The decisions tech leaders and those affected by them now make—amid a backdrop of global economic and geopolitical uncertainty—will reverberate for decades to come. What and how technology builds from here, not unlike the banks after the financial crisis, will lay the new world business order for decades to come.

And The Information knows this story like no one else.

Nine years ago this week, I set out to build a publication for the people who want to make the news—not just read it.

With a business model based on loyalty, deep sourcing in the new tech order and a commitment to the toughest, independent reporting out there, we’ve done that.

In 2022, we were first to so many incredibly important stories.

• We exposed the now ousted CEOs who cashed out of their companies as their valuations were crumbling.
• We took you inside the Netflix business model shift that upended the industry.
• We continued our string of scoops about Apple’s next major device, scheduled to hit shelves (and your face) next year.
• We have dominated coverage of Musk’s Twitter takeover from the beginning, and were the first to report on a slew of moves, including that he fired the CEO and CFO for cause, costing them millions.

And we’ve made subscribers smarter with org charts, data projects, fresh commentary, a new Weekend section, subscriber conversations, in-person and virtual subscriber events and much more. All for a fraction of the cost of most major newspapers.

For 2023, we’re planning a big expansion of our newsroom into more financial services coverage, more on the future of enterprise and much, much more.

If you would like to join on this year’s plans, before they change next year, you can do so here.

Lastly, thank you. The Information isn’t a job to me. It’s a passion and a purpose. And it wouldn’t be thriving without you.

Jessica E. Lessin
Founder, Editor-in-chief