How to be a CEO podcast: Unbound CEO, Wil Harris

“Publishing hasn’t changed since the Middle Ages”
Unbound
Rachelle Abbott17 October 2022

Wil Harris is the CEO of Unbound, a digital publisher with ambitions to disrupt an industry he says is almost unchanged in hundreds of years.

Unbound uses a crowdfunding model to finance the publication of books.

In this episode we talk about:

Why Publishing is “ripe for disruption”

  • The risks of running a disruptive player against legacy giants
  • The benefits of crowd-funding
  • How Unbound’s encouraging wider diversity in authors
  • How they’re encouraging big name writers to work with them
  • The internet was built for niche communities, and how to appeal to them
  • His career from starting one of the world’s first YouTube production companies to books

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