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# Creator economy businesses - a correction
- URL: https://werd.io/creative-economy-businesses---a-correction/
- Published: 2025-04-16T23:03:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-16T23:03:28.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

I realized I misspoke in [today’s piece about Bluesky product strategy](https://werd.io/2025/if-i-ran-bluesky-product). In it, I said this:

> I’m generally not bullish about creator economy services.

What I *meant* to say is that I’m generally not bullish about *venture-funded* creative economy services. It’s the need for venture scale and sky-high valuations that makes these a tough nut to crack. In a vacuum, there’s nothing wrong with these businesses at all; Medium’s turnaround demonstrates how well it can be done, and I have endless admiration for what the [Ghost](https://ghost.org) team has managed to achieve and build.

I’m sorry for my lack of precision here! I didn’t mean to throw the whole space under the bus. But I stand by my skepticism that these businesses can reach venture scale.