Substack, every mention
18 scenes (2022) · ← back to Substack
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every year 2022 anyone David Rosenthal 11Ben Thompson 10Ben Gilbert 9Packy McCormick 7Katherine Boyle 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Substack comes up
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 32:04 David Rosenthal I mean, there was no Substack.
- ▶ 32:06 David Rosenthal I think in many ways, Substack was, I don't know the exact history, but probably modeled after you.
- ▶ 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.
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 1:02:55 David Rosenthal That's the last, you know, cool thing about this, which is that thanks to Substack, podcasting, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, it's never been easier.
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:29 Katherine Boyle I think the, the kind of biggest trend in media, and I can talk about another one of our investments, Substack, which I think has sort of benefited from this trend, is that people are now brands.
- ▶ 1:03:43 David Rosenthal You mentioned, um, Substack earlier, you know, thinking about like, I think one of the greatest problems facing America, Western society broadly right now is just like all these people that need jobs that lead a red content in college.
- ▶ 1:04:32 David Rosenthal We're kind of like doing it right now in this conversation, you know, and lots of sub stack writers are too.
- ▶ 1:05:49 Katherine Boyle And so whether you're talking about, like, as you said, Substack or Shopify, where people are building incredible businesses on the platform, or whether it's, hey, like, there's a lot of capital available, and now I'm a founder in Miami,…
- ▶ 1:19:40 David Rosenthal And you have a great sub stack to the Rambler, right?