Comparing The Athletic’s recent funding round to large rounds from other sports media companies

Last week, The Athletic CEO Alex Mather revealed to the Wall Street Journal that the two-year-old sports site had raised $20 million in a third round of funding, an impressive figure for a company most prospective readers likely hadn’t heard of only a year ago. Such a lucrative funding round indicated that it’s not only big-name reporters who … Continue reading Comparing The Athletic’s recent funding round to large rounds from other sports media companies