Thanks to You: Labor, Capital, and Ability
📈 2024 subscriber goals exceeded. 🧑🏭 More community building ahead.
On this Thanksgiving Day 🇺🇸, I want to express gratitude to you, the loyal reader. Your continued support, thoughtful comments, and enthusiasm for industrial technology content continue to impress me. I started this journey four years ago, hoping to create meaningful discussions and share valuable insights, but you've helped build something even better - a vibrant community of engaged readers who make every post better with your participation through clicks, comments, and messages. Please reply to this email with any additional feedback on the publication with ways it has impacted your life and career, I’d love to hear about it.
I set a couple of goals for the publication this year, and I’ve exceeded all of them with your help. First, the subscriber count has more than doubled year over year while keeping the open rate and engagement rate above newsletter benchmarks. Second, I’ve been able to meet with many of you in person at events and virtually and listen to your stories and challenges in bringing industrial technology into your organizations, scaling into new markets, or helping with diligence about funding emerging companies. Please continue to share the love of Exponential Industry with your colleagues and friends.
Heading into 2025, I have a long list of ideas I am excited to launch. You may have noticed some changes with the weekly digest format, these are a preview of what’s next. As a reminder, there are four core tenets of Exponential Industry:
Direct from the source - Bias to primary sources through the synthesis of thousands of company blogs, press releases, podcasts, deep-dive articles, tweets, and videos directly from where they were originally published.
Credit and attribution - Prominently display the author(s) and publication to give credit where credit is due.
Straight to the point - Curate excerpts that seek to answer what and why. Highlight the value proposition and result so each reader is briefed on a wide range of topics and is encouraged to dive deeper if the content is enticing to explore more.
Private and opt-in by default - Substack is used to deliver this publication directly to your inbox and thus your email is known. On the website, Cloudflare web analytics provides traffic analytics without compromising user privacy. That’s it. This gives me enough insight to know which media you find valuable in aggregate and ensure the content continues to hit the mark.
These core tenets bring together an audience across 77 countries every week. An audience where industrial progress isn't just about new machines - it's about the hundreds of minds and hands providing the labor, capital, and ability to move the industrial world forward.
“Labor, capital, and ability are a three-legged stool... They are equal members of the great triple alliance which moves the industrial world.” - Andrew Carnegie
This triple alliance IS the subscriber base of Exponential Industry, but not the only way to inspire the future. Tech meets art at ASML's interactive light installation, which is worth a few minutes to watch this holiday season.
However you find inspiration, I expect to connect the great triple alliance together in 2025 through industry events and social media. Whether that is at Hannover Messe, Automate, IMTS, or somewhere else where we may cross paths. Reach out and let’s make an impact on the future of industry.