'Huge gap in the market': the local publisher winning where others won't tread
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“[The backers] see that my long-term project has some merit and value and they want to support it,” Ms Lehmann said. “It’s not exactly philanthropy but no one who is investing is expecting to make a huge sum of money in the next 12 or 24 months.”
Mr Carnegie, a proponent of independent publishing, was a donor before becoming an investor this year and organised to meet Ms Lehmann after reading a series of Quillette articles and discovering the founder was Australian.
My interest has always been, primarily, because I thought what she was doing was very important.
Mark Carnegie
“My interest has always been, primarily, because I thought what she was doing was very important,” he said, likening Quillette to his investment in Lonely Planet. “Not many people know about her in Australia but she has become very high profile overseas.”
A defining moment for Ms Lehmann occurred in 2017. Google employee James Damore attended a diversity program at the tech company and then wrote a memo to his managers complaining of an “ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be discussed honestly”.
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