Toby Stock

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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]

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Life and career

Stock attended Harvard Law School, graduating with a juris doctor degree in 2001. [4] From 2001 to 2003, Stock was an associate at McKinsey & Company. [5]

Stock was Assistant Dean of Admissions at Harvard Law School from 2005 to 2009. [5] [4] [1] While working at Harvard Law School, he purchased a brick in a fundraising auction for $600, gaining notoriety among students. [4] [6] 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. [5] [7] [8]

In October 2019, Stock launched The Dispatch , a subscription-based center-right online media company, alongside Jonah Goldberg and Stephen F. Hayes. [1] [9] [7] Stock served as the president of the company for the first year. [1] The Dispatch was Substack's first media company. [10] 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. [7]

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