Evernomic is a venture studio that builds and scales media companies. We operate a range of brands from Mailbrew, an email digest tool used by over 100K people, to Dutch Brief, one of the most popular news sources in the Netherlands. Our work has shown up in Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider along the way.

We started as a bootstrapped media holding company. Our first portfolio was a collection of digital publications and content brands, and that foundation shaped everything that came after. Today we build and acquire companies across media and media-adjacent sectors, from analytics and community platforms to advertising and publishing. Our portfolio includes companies at every stage, from early products finding their footing to established brands reaching millions of people every month.

We started Letters by Evernomic because the most interesting things we learn about media happen in private conversations. We wanted to make some of those conversations public. Letters is a weekly(ish) publication on the media industry. We publish insider conversations and deep dives on how media companies are built, bought, and run.

Every piece takes the form of a letter. Some are written directly to our audience, sharing opinions, analysis, and what we’re seeing across the industry. Some are guest letters from operators and insiders who know a specific corner of media deeply. And some are published correspondences and exchanges between us and someone in the industry on a specific topic, lightly edited but kept in their original format.

The result is a publication that reads differently from anything else covering media. Personal letters addressed to the people who care most about how this industry actually works. We write like we’d talk to a friend, not like we’re trying to build an audience.