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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Substack comes up
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…