Who actually publishes in venture, by volume

Publishing in venture follows roughly the distribution you'd expect: a handful of people write constantly, a long tail writes once a quarter, and a surprising number of famous firms write nothing at all.

The high-volume end

SaaStr is the outlier by a distance, with over 2,400 posts in our archive. It's closer to a trade publication than a blog at this point.

Brad Feld has more than 5,000 posts going back two decades, which is less a blog than a public record of an entire career in venture.

Tomasz Tunguz and Lenny's Newsletter both run north of 800 posts, at near-daily and weekly cadence respectively.

The firms

Firm blogs cluster lower than you'd guess. USV, Sequoia and a16z all publish, but at a pace closer to monthly than weekly once you strip out portfolio announcements, which we do.

That stripping matters. A firm that looks prolific often turns out to be publishing funding news. Of the posts we indexed last week, about a third were announcements, profiles of a single portfolio company, or podcast episodes, none of which make the digest.

What volume doesn't tell you

Our scoring is deliberately independent of cadence. The highest-scoring pieces last month came from people who publish every few weeks, not every day. Writing less and thinking more is a real strategy, and the archive bears it out.

The flip side: consistency compounds. The daily writers are the ones people quote, partly because they're always there when something happens.

You can see the current shape of this yourself. The index is sortable by how active a source is, and every source has its own page with what it's published lately.