Substack, every mention
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- ▶ 32:11 Ben Thompson Yeah, no, Substack's seed deck says Shackery in a box.
- ▶ 38:05 Ben Thompson This is one of my big criticisms of Substack.
- ▶ 38:09 Ben Thompson Well, I mean, it's interesting because Substack I think is achieving some degree of network effects where everyone's familiar with it, that your payment's already on file.
- ▶ 38:20 Ben Thompson Every single site looks the same.
- ▶ 53:32 Ben Thompson One of the things I think is great for sort of the, I went back to Substack making it easy to pay.
- ▶ 53:37 Ben Thompson I think the real great thing for Substack and Substack writers today, it's not just that it's easy to pay, but people aren't scared to give their money to some random writer on the internet.
- ▶ 55:04 Ben Thompson You know, it's funny because I think once subset came along, it became overwhelming and people started setting up rules to send all their emails to a folder, which they never check.
- ▶ 55:30 Ben Thompson One of my criticisms of Substack was I think they were too email centric to start.
- ▶ 1:12:50 Ben Thompson And the fact that Substack is out there and there's hundreds or thousands or how many people making their living doing this.
- ▶ 1:14:06 Ben Thompson I actually thought about building a sub stack a few years before they launched.