Chris Best
9 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 6, 2023 by Chris Best · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Feb 6, 2023 bearish
Best: TikTok is a Chinese slot machine harmful to democracy
“The elephant in the room is TikTok. It's like this Chinese run slot machine game thing. And the type of people that are attracted to making that thing are not necessarily the ones that are going to Make for the strongest democracy, right?”
Feb 6, 2023 positive
Best: Substack aligns monetization with audience trust rather than engagement
“Substack is an attempt to push in the other direction. It's an attempt to say, hey, the way that you win is by earning and keeping the trust of people who deeply value what you do to the point where they might want to pay you.”
Feb 6, 2023
Best: Media will never return to pre-internet centralized gatekeeping
“We're not gonna not have people able to directly connect with a large audience. That's a change in the world that, you know, put the genie back in that bottle. We're not gonna go to a world where new people can't start their own media empire, start their own c…”
Sep 2, 2025 neutral
Sep 2, 2025 bullish
Best: Direct audience connections let creators override algorithmic feeds
“And so the direct connection, in addition to being this way, you can bring your audience with you is a way to give humans the power to override the algorithm and say, Hey, I've got this trust relationship with my audience. I want to exercise it and go out on a…”
Sep 2, 2025 positive
Best: Giving users the right to exit forces long-term value creation
“I think the right to exit is really important. People thought that was very dumb. They said, well, if you just let your customers leave, like won't they just leave? And I think in the short run, that might be true, but in the long run, that created the right s…”
Sep 2, 2025
Best: Liberal media figures bore the brunt of 2020 cancellations
“The people that it really, I think in 20, 20, the thing that surprised me, the people that felt the brunt of that were not conservatives. We're not Republicans necessarily. It was the people in the liberal media. In, you know, in, in, in my telling, I would sa…”
Sep 2, 2025 positive
Best: Ousted mainstream journalists boosted Substack's early growth
“The fact that this thing that we were creating this new economic engine for culture that gives you this independence happened to be there at a time where a bunch of the most interesting writers in the world were getting summarily Tossed from their long-time in…”
Sep 2, 2025 negative
Best: Peer review is a mistake driving a crisis of fake science
“I think a lot of science is totally broken. I think that they're like, I think that a lot of the, and I think that the scientific project is incredibly important and one of the most valuable things in history, but that the practice of science and the Current s…”