Summary
Tony Stubblebine is a veteran technology entrepreneur and executive with 17 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing web and mobile products, currently serving as CEO of Medium. He co-founded and led Lift Worldwide, a Series A habit‑building startup behind one of the first habit-tracking apps and coaching platforms, and previously ran social and publishing businesses including Better Humans and CrowdVine. Tony’s early engineering leadership helped launch pioneering Web 2.0 products—he led engineering at Odeo during the era that produced the first version of Twitter and ran online publishing at O’Reilly. Combining hands-on technical roots (BA in Computer Science from Grinnell) with a track record of founding, funding, and publishing, he’s as comfortable shipping code as he is steering editorial and product strategy. Based in Hyde Park, NY, he brings a rare mix of product intuition, publishing savvy, and habit‑forming product experience to platform-level leadership.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Grinnell College