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every year anyone Harry Stebbings 60Mike Mignano 8Chris Best 5Ryan Wiggins 3Katherine Boyle 3Jason Lemkin 3Anthony Casalena 3Logan Bartlett 2Chris Dixon 2Rory O'Driscoll 1
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Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:30 Mike Mignano Now I think with the, the benefit of hindsight, um, I really regret not ever having the, having had the opportunity to invest in Substack. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:16 Mike Mignano Again, which is why I love Substack.
Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:13 Rory O'Driscoll So, first of all, I agree on the, um, the kind of framing, and I actually, I'm going to quote a blogger I read, a sub stacker I read, Evan Armstrong, who described this quarter, and I thought it was a great description.
- ▶ 10:39 Jason Lemkin The only one thing I might add is, you know, there still remains, probably in that substack you quoted and others, there remains a lot of skepticism that's investment ties. 2 times in the scene
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:42 unnamed speaker I love the Noah Smith descriptions, a sub stacker I follow in economics a lot.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:35 David Cahn And then it's worth at least giving a shout out to this group of people that I call builders in this, uh, sub-stack post that I did, which is,
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 53:40 Kieran Flanagan YouTube, podcasting, Substack, these kinds of channels
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:08 Jason Lemkin I think is, I just tried the one on notion and sub stack were on it.
Arvind Narayanan: AI Scaling Myths, The Core Bottlenecks in AI Today & The Future of Models | E1195 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings I was telling you just now, I am one of your biggest fans on the Substack newsletter. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:35 Chris Dixon Like, you think about your, you know, you have your email list on Substack, you own that list. 2 times in the scene
Ryan Wiggins: Scaling WhatsApp from 0-100M; How to Build a Growth Team; Mercury Neobank | E1016 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:20 Ryan Wiggins I mean, one that I really love is Substack. 3 times in the scene
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:17 Chris Paik Um, the other thing is you can, you can view that very diametrically opposite to something like a substack where substack
- ▶ 1:41:55 Harry Stebbings What's the future of Substack? 6 times in the scene
Brad Gerstner: How I Pick Companies; Lessons from Warren Buffet; Chamath vs Gurley | E935 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:03 Brad Gerstner So we, we really have a culture and we spend our days challenging each other, thinking, inviting people in to opine on the subject that we might have, um, you know, around, for example, the modern data stack, you know, that we've obviously…
Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:18 Logan Bartlett Do blogs reside on someone's own sub stack or someone's own domain, or do they reside on the firm's website or the firm's medium or the firm sub stack? 2 times in the scene
20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Popular newsletters on Substack.
20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
- ▶ 26:07 Mark Carney It makes it easier for somebody who's creative to potentially make a living at a minimum, make a living as a creative through, whether it's through Substack, whether it's through NF, you know, production of NFTs and the stream of income…
20VC: Squarespace Founder, Anthony Casalena on Scaling Squarespace from Dorm Room To Public Company with over $700M in ARR, The Decision to Direct List over Traditional IPO or SPAC & What Changes When You Go Public?
- ▶ 17:15 Anthony Casalena You can combine that with our email campaigns product to do a sub-stack-like product with Joining Forces with Talk. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
- ▶ 8:46 Alexis Ohanian Substack.
20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
- ▶ 28:57 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, in terms of, like, favorite writers, and we have Substack and everything, do you have any favorite, like, blog writers?
20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- ▶ 32:19 Katherine Boyle This summer, a number of very, very smart and thoughtful people have left the New York Times or New York Magazine, like Andrew Sullivan and Barry Weiss, and they've said, we're going to Substack because we can say what we believe, and we… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:22 Katherine Boyle It's very difficult to say what you believe, and that's why these narrow communities and these, you know, whether it's a Substack newsletter or whether it's a signal channel where you can talk to a small group of people, we're seeing the…
- ▶ 34:40 Harry Stebbings Does that mean, like, I had Chris, founder of Substack, on the show, and he said that he fundamentally thought we'd see massive behemoths like your New York Times, your Wall Street Journals continue and prevail and be strong, and then you… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
- ▶ 22:52 Harry Stebbings I do want to move on to kind of a final element, though, before we do the quick fire, and it's more of a macro picture on kind of the subscription media landscape more broadly, because I spoke to Chris at Substack on the show before, and… 9 times in the scene
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings Now, I've probably given it away with that, but I'm thrilled to welcome Chris Best, founder and CEO at Substack, to the hot seat. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:05 Harry Stebbings However, that's quite enough from me, so now I'm very excited to hand over to Chris Best, founder and CEO at Substack.
- ▶ 2:21 Harry Stebbings As I said, I've been a big fan of many Substack authors for a long time now, so, Hugh, thank you for joining me today. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:35 Harry Stebbings I do want to also, you mentioned obviously Kick, and I spoke to Ted before, your co-founder, and he asked in particular, what worked with Kick that you've taken with you to Substack? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:23 Harry Stebbings But then on the other hand, we've seen Substack absolutely take off. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:37 Harry Stebbings How do you think Substack interacts with public news, first off? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:56 Harry Stebbings We mentioned kind of the public journal of record there, and when we look at kind of the future of the media landscape more generally and more from a macro perspective, in my mind, I see the juggernauts continuing, be it your Forbes, your… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:24 Harry Stebbings The product paradigm that you have today with Substack could extend into so many different areas from marketing technologies, focusing on retention and optimization of Substack pages, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:11 Chris Best And so a large part of what Substack is, is just, what if the game had different rules? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:34 Harry Stebbings Because people can't subscribe to 25 sub-stack authors. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:46 Harry Stebbings At Kick, you were founding CTO, now at Substant, you're obviously CEO. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:38 Harry Stebbings Who was the first check-in to Substack, and how did it come about? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:09 Chris Best It causes sort of scenes and movements to form, and for sort of like the broader project of humanity to improve, it's like we're massively under-investing in that, and in my dream for what we accomplish with Substack is that we're a major… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Lightspeed Partner, Merci Victoria Grace on The Future of Collaboration Tools, Bundling vs Unbundling, Synchronous vs Asynchronous & What It Means To Productise The S*** Out of Venture
- ▶ 36:38 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you a fantastic episode this coming Friday with Chris, founder at Substack.
20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- ▶ 15:46 unnamed speaker There have been people who've said Rome's the reason they didn't drop out of their master's thesis, or like Rome allowed them to suddenly take their subsack and make it something that's paid because they're producing three times as much…