Welcome to The Midnight Merchant

Taking the long view on all things business.

The Midnight Merchant is a long-form business publication, written for and by entrepreneurs and investors. We tell the stories of the people behind the businesses burning the midnight oil working on something special — how they began, what they wagered, and what they’re learning on the long march from an idea to a life’s work.

Most people take the short and expedient path today: an obsession with the next quarter, the next news cycle, creating for an audience that scrolls past in the time it takes to blink. We believe there is beauty in the long form and wisdom in the long view. We are, unapologetically, long-winded — rambling our way to discover where the real story is: between business and culture, economics and politics, emotion and calculation, the past and the present.

So, welcome to The Midnight Merchant. Whether you have found us by daylight or read this with the city asleep around you, near to where we write or a dozen time zones away, you are among good company — the kind that suspects the best things are built slowly, and read closely. Subscribe below, and we’ll send the interviews, the essays, and the dispatches your way. The shop stays open late. We’re glad you came in. — MM