Toby Stock Explained

Toby Stock
Nationality:American

Toby Stock is an American legal scholar and co-founder of center-right online media company The Dispatch.[1] [2] He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer at the National Constitution Center.[3]

Life and career

Stock attended Harvard Law School, graduating with a juris doctor degree in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, Stock was an associate at McKinsey & Company.

Stock was Assistant Dean of Admissions at Harvard Law School from 2005 to 2009.[4] [1] While working at Harvard Law School, he purchased a brick in a fundraising auction for $600, gaining notoriety among students.[4] [5] He left after accepting a job as managing director for development at the American Enterprise Institute.[4]

From 2009 to 2019, Stock worked at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.[6] [7]

In October 2019, Stock launched The Dispatch, a subscription-based center-right online media company, alongside Jonah Goldberg and Stephen F. Hayes.[1] [8] Stock served as the president of the company for the first year.[1] The Dispatch was Substack's first media company.[9] In its first year, The Dispatch received approximately 100,000 subscribers and received nearly $2 million in first-year revenue, most of it derived from Substack subscriptions.[10]

Notes and References

  1. News: Lippman . Daniel . Sarah Isgur joins conservative media startup as staff writer . 6 May 2021 . Politico . November 19, 2019.
  2. Web site: Trump critics on the right join the media wars. Michael. Calderone. Politico.
  3. Web site: Senior Team . National Constitution Center . 6 May 2021.
  4. News: Hutchins . Matthew W. . Toby Stock's Last Interview . 6 May 2021 . Harvard Law Record . January 22, 2009.
  5. News: Agule . Rebecca . "Auction 007" – A Success for SPIF . 6 May 2021 . Harvard Law Record . April 18, 2007.
  6. News: Scarborough . Wes . Think tank director, former Harvard administrator discusses American decline . 6 May 2021 . The Daily Texan . November 13, 2014.
  7. News: CONSERVATIVE WHOSE ANTI-TRUMP NEWS OUTLET FAILED LAUNCHES NEW ANTI-TRUMP NEWS OUTLET . 6 May 2021 . Pluralist . October 8, 2019.
  8. News: Bienaime . Pierre . 'We don't need your clicks': The Dispatch co-founder Steve Hayes on bucking the attention economy . 6 May 2021 . Digiday . June 16, 2020.
  9. News: Owen . Laura Hazard . Substack's first media company is The Dispatch, a center-right site founded by former Weekly Standard and National Review editors . 6 May 2021 . Nieman Lab . October 8, 2019.
  10. News: Tracy . Mark . Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox . 6 May 2021 . New York Times . September 23, 2020.