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Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 18:26 Gavin Baker And then, you know, a substack summarizer, an X summarizer, um, an X sentiment tracker for topics and stocks.
The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 44:31 Elena Burger So check it out on Substack and the ASIC Stunzi blog.
The Media Game Has Changed
- ▶ 10:50 Marc Andreessen And, and to go from that to what we have today within, in the, in the podcast world and the Substack world is just such an incredible advance.
Marc Andreessen’s Worldview in 60 Minutes | Live on MTS
- ▶ 1:02:32 Marc Andreessen Um, I sort of, you know, continuous x feed, my continuous sub stack feed, my continuous YouTube feed, um, and, uh, yeah, and then trying to, uh, as usual, trying to write, trying to read enough old books to try to have some counterbalance…
Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show
- ▶ 59:13 Marc Andreessen I would point to Substack.
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer | Alex Blania on a16z
- ▶ 21:18 Erik Torenberg Well, the whole sort of the creator economy platforms of the last decade, you know, Substack, Spotify, and all the people who support artists or, you know, Patreon, et cetera, creators, YouTubers, they have a personal relationship with,…
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz on a16z’s New Media Strategy
- ▶ 18:59 Marc Andreessen It's the, it's the, it's the viral Facebook post, it's the viral substack, it's the viral YouTube video.
- ▶ 32:42 Marc Andreessen Um, a long form sub stack post is for sure written culture. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:09 Erik Torenberg And so for every platform that we have, we have a, you know, with Substack, podcast, Instagram, you know, uh, X, YouTube, et cetera, we have, uh, expert running it.
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 3:10 Marc Andreessen Um, I also want to give just like enormous credit to the Substack guys. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:16 Packy McCormick So I think a good place to kind of talk about a bunch of the themes that, that we covered in the, in the piece, one of which is, I mean, the Substack investment. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:01 Marc Andreessen Are they ever going to actually write content that's, you know, like, you know, when Substack was gearing up, it's when, in my view, the press kind of became this kind of extreme and negative monoculture. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 Marc Andreessen Yeah, and I'd also add, you know, Pat, if you have a Substack point, like, I think Substack could be, like, a thousand times the size of the, of the existing, like, content industry, whatever you want to call it, media news industry, um,… 4 times in the scene
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 43:17 Kevin Rose Because, you know, one of the things that I, I feel personally, maybe more so on the sub stack level, but there's like a five dollars everywhere, right?
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 7:54 Chris Dixon You see that today, maybe it was sub stack. 4 times in the scene
Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
- ▶ 0:17 Katherine Boyle And that was Substack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:40 Chris Best I aspire that the Substack app could be a place where you, you look back at the time you spend on it and think, damn, I'm glad I did that.
- ▶ 0:50 Erik Torenberg Catherine, we've been talking for years about how much we, we, we love Substack even before we were formally affiliated with the, with the company. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:36 Chris Best I've always seen the, the free speech thing as sort of an important pillar, but not the main pillar of what Substack is actually setting out to do. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:28 Andrew Chen We had, you know, Google Reader, RIP, and then you had kind of basically a phase, you know, Chris, when, when I met, um, uh, you know, your, your co-founder, Hamish, um, initially, and the, and the company was, was three people, um, this… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:12 Chris Best In the early days, people would often say to me in an accusatory tone, Substack is just blogging with a business model. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:31 Erik Torenberg Expand on what is the big vision for Substack, and I'm also curious how that's evolved, if that sort of, you know, the vision in 2018, 2019, 20 is the same vision as it is now. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:36 Erik Torenberg Talk more about how you decided to, to launch notes or, or go from, okay, we've got this sort of business engine where we've got all, all these writers making a lot of money.
- ▶ 15:47 Chris Best I'll tell one, I'll tell one step before that because it went into my thinking, but very early on in the very early days of Substack, we were like, okay, the thing that's going to be really different about Substack is it's all going to be… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:08 Erik Torenberg And, and now, especially with, with video and people aren't used, used to paying for video in the, in the same way that used to paying for writing, partially because of your sub-stacks innovation there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:15 Chris Best I started a whole company to procrastinate from finishing an essay. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:35 Chris Best Maybe three, all of you are actually people that we've tried to recruit to be sub stackers, but wound up at A-sixteen Z instead. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:57 Chris Best And the thing that I think we can do at Substack is to create a version of that thing that is also fun and is also good and is also empowering. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:21 Chris Best Future of media and make it really good and make it really compelling and make, have it, people make money from it when they make something truly great and have people realize that, you know, I, I, I aspire that the Substack app could be a…
- ▶ 38:12 Erik Torenberg I've sort of seen some academics also on Substack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:29 Chris Best So I think the big story of this to me is we've, we've had this long-term ambition for what are the pieces of Substack? 5 times in the scene
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
- ▶ 3:31 Noah Smith If you had to write Substack, you know, articles like several times a week on economics, you might not do as well.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 8:25 Balaji Srinivasan So when someone goes from NYT to Substack, they're moving from state to network.
- ▶ 1:34:26 Erik Torenberg I do want to call it that there, there are some, you know, we named some of them, but there's some other new media folks who are sub stackers, et cetera, who 3 times in the scene
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 1:28 Eric Vishria Antonio famously says, uh, the prize for beating, uh, Matt Iglesias in the sub stack rankings is, is you then become Matt Iglesias and that wasn't, uh, inspiring enough. 2 times in the scene
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 1:09 Erik Torenberg Over the past couple of decades, you know, Facebook, Twitter, Substack, many others.
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 13:54 David Ignatius Um, you have a, uh, a blog on Substack, uh, that I think you call First Breakfast.
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 42:06 Marc Andreessen And then, you know, we're, and then we're seeing the unwind of that through things like Elon, you know, taking over Twitter and then, um, you know, also our company Substack kind of fighting against that.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 22:53 Chris Dixon Just like with an email provider, like if you don't like what Substack is doing,
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 29:33 Sriram Krishnan Text out of it and the learnings and put it on Twitter or on Substack.
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 39:09 Guy Parsons Um, and you can find my Substack when I finally post at promptresponse.substack.com. 2 times in the scene
The 4th Estate: How Media is Changing in Washington, D.C.
- ▶ 0:46 unnamed speaker And then, finally, we have Chris Best, the founder of Substack,
- ▶ 4:25 Bari Weiss And that's frankly where, where companies like Axios come in, where platforms like Substack come in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:44 unnamed speaker Now, and Chris, you, you, you started, I believe you started Substack in 2017. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:00 unnamed speaker And the other thing that sort of changed around the same time where you started Axios and Substack was we, we saw the President of the United States going direct on Twitter.
- ▶ 12:49 unnamed speaker Created, I would say, a culture of trust at Substack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:28 unnamed speaker I know Substack, you know, there's independent journalists who are thinking about local, but how do we fix sort of the rest of the country, not just Washington? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:30 Bari Weiss Like, in a way that as much as the model has changed, and the mechanism for distributing it has changed, like, that remains a thing that is needed, and so I find myself doing exactly what people probably 50 years would do, although maybe… 2 times in the scene
The Factory of the Future with Chris Power
- ▶ 1:13:55 Steph Smith Your Twitter app or, uh, your own sub stack or whatever it might be, and we can all participate and it does create this like infinite ecosystem on both supply and demand.