The Ledger, every show
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.
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Best: Substack advises writers to publish their best work for free
“Our emphatic advice to writers is take your best stuff, take your most impactful stuff, and publish that for free.”
Best: The core problem for modern media consumers is establishing trust
“Nobody has the problem in That I don't have enough stuff to read, or I can't find a piece that's written about a topic that I care about, or I can't find this information. The problem that people have is, can I trust this?”
Best: Bundle economics will become important for subscription newsletters
“I think, you know, bundle economics are very real. That's definitely a thing that will become interesting.”
Best: Society is massively underinvesting in funding independent creators
“I believe that it's sort of massively too little and that the ecosystem we have for a Funding creators, and a lot of it is valuing and funding creators, but really the net thing is funding creators in such a way that it causes great work to be done, that it ca…”
Best: Open podcasts guarantee audience delivery unlike algorithmic feeds
“When somebody subscribes to your podcast, if you make another episode, they're going to get it. In most good podcast players. Whereas if someone follows you on Twitter, and are they going to get your next tweet? Like, you never know.”
Best: Consistently read newsletters achieve passive organic growth
“I mean, just, A, because text is really easy to, like, you know, if you have, like, a webpage, you can share it, and if you get an email, you can forward it, and so we often see, this is something I think you don't see in podcasting, but if you have a newslett…”
Best: Consumers pay for online courses but not standalone videos
“People won't pay for videos, but they'll pay for online courses, which are just like a couple of videos.”
Best: Building an engaging newsletter is harder than monetizing it
“If you get to a place where you have a newsletter that people are regularly reading, like if they're just regularly opening it chances are you'll be able to charge for it if you want to at some level, because it's actually harder to make something that's good …”
Best: Waterloo's mandatory co-op program is more valuable than its classes
“The most important thing about Waterloo, though, is not actually what you learn in the classes, it's the fact that they have this mandatory co-op program.”
Best: Kik Messenger was used by 40% of US teenagers
“I mean, at one point, there was, I think, 40% of U.S. Teenagers were using Keck for a few years.”
Best: Substack grew roughly sixfold during the first year of the pandemic
“I mean, we grew something like six X in that first year of the pandemic.”