Unmade is one: Two awards, a fraud, and an unwelcome exit: the messy trajectory of our startup phase

Welcome to a Friday edition of Unmade. Time (already!) for our second end of year update. Those who’ve been with us for a while will know this is where I share the behind-the-scenes story of Unmade as both a publication and a business. The idea is to tell you as much about what went wrong as went right. For those interested in business publishing, I’ve got plenty of both. For those who have a day job away from publishing, feel free to skip today’s (long!) effort.

Before I jump in, this is a good moment to let you know there will never be a better time to become a paying member of Unmade. The reason to do so today is that we’ve kicked off an end of year offer. If you sign up before Friday December 23, you’ll get a discount of 48% on our usual price of $650 – taking it down to $338. There’ll never be as big a discount again.

Along with access to our regular paywalled content, including the Tuesdata archive, you also get discounts on attending our events. I’ll be telling you about our next one, further down.

Taking out a paying membership is also a great way for you and your company to support our independent journalism.