Company Performance Metrics
Yael Goldstein Love: Co-Founder and Editorial Director
Jennifer Lee: CEOPast Role: Upworthy, Team Member
DailyLit, their consumer-facing product, consists of a team of publishers, product designers and engineers on a mission to bring the best fiction and non-fiction to the world's 600 million smartphones and tablets. And they do it in a way that fits into daily life's small moments.
They are the only team that combines world-class
software engineers (MIT, ex-Palantir) with an eminent editorial staff (New York Times-bestselling author) that has relationships with publishers of the world's best writers. Their library has included stories from:
- Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner
- Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Julia Glass, National Book Award Winner
- John Grisham, 250 million+ books sold
Acquired by Plympton in spring 2013, DailyLit was founded 2006 by USV Partner Albert Wenger and Susan Danziger. It has grown to 200,000 users and a mailing list of 150,000. We are building a next-generation mobile e-reading app focused on curated selections—shorter form and serialized—for subscription.
