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Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media Sep 2, 2025 · 30 mentions

• ▶ 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.
• ▶ 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
• ▶ 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
• ▶ 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
• ▶ 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…
• ▶ 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