The Best of 2021

The most popular posts of the year, and a brief look back

Dec 28, 2021

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👋 Hey, Lenny here! Welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stressing you out about work. Send me your questions and in return I’ll humbly offer actionable real-talk advice.

2021 in review

It was a big year for this newsletter:

Hit #1 paid business newsletter on Substack (rankings)
Crossed 90,000 subscribers (2x’d from the start of the year)
Reached 1m page views (primarily from the U.S., India, Europe, Canada, Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands, and Singapore)
Published 58 posts (including 12 guest posts), plus 52 additional posts from the community itself—a total of 110 posts!
Grew to over 6,500 amazing members in our Slack community 🔥

Your support for this newsletter is what makes it all possible, and I’m so incredibly grateful for you. THANK YOU for allowing me to do this work. Happy holidays, happy new year, and wait till you see what I’ve got in store for 2022 ✨