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LLMs, links, and the death of links
- ▶ 3:01 Benedict Evans And meanwhile, of course, Substack has basically massively disrupted Medium. 8 times in the scene
Threads
- ▶ 7:40 Benedict Evans So the story is, I think they started work on it at the beginning of the year when he did the blocking links to Substack and banned Paul Graham.
- ▶ 35:06 Benedict Evans Jack Dorsey, Jack Dorsey forgot they owned it and went on Twitter and said, why does anyone use Substack? 2 times in the scene
The right questions to ask about TikTok
- ▶ 32:02 Benedict Evans Substack is trying to build discovery tools around that, and some people on Substack say that's working.
The future of Twitter
- ▶ 6:43 Benedict Evans And meanwhile, Substack comes along and builds an email newsletter platform, and the joke was always, has been Substack is Twitter's Playwall, because you build your user base on Twitter, and then you monetize it on, on Substack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:18 Benedict Evans Jack Dorsey goes on Twitter and says, why does anyone use Substack? 2 times in the scene
The Evolution of networks
- ▶ 6:04 Benedict Evans And the same thing, and the same thing with Substack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:53 Benedict Evans Substack. 7 times in the scene
Creativity and Optimism
- ▶ 2:50 Benedict Evans It's Substack or Clubhouse or something else.
Tech in china, from inside and outside
- ▶ 40:26 Benedict Evans The shift away from cross-site advertising based on interest targeting, and a shift towards just advertising around first-party data, advertising on one site, and a shift towards much more payment models, um, whether that's a paywall for…
The Business of publishing
- ▶ 26:29 Benedict Evans And then the other place, of course, you can go is the Substack thing, where, again, for another, a different kind of writer, a different kind of content, you can sell it directly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:37 Benedict Evans Um, whether it's athletic or hockey and D or however you pronounce it or sub stack or podcasts or influencers, you just have this sort of massive proliferation of different ways to build a business because in the past, the way you build a… 2 times in the scene
Trying to understand Ad Tech
- ▶ 35:50 Benedict Evans What happens in Substack is only in Substack, and of course in Gmail.
Shopify and digital transformation
- ▶ 19:52 Benedict Evans And so at this point, like, you kind of need to understand that these things are possible and how they would work, which is also the point of Substack, which we've talked about before, which is like, yes, you can make a Squarespace…
Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
- ▶ 19:10 Benedict Evans And, you know, to the point, like we mentioned, you know, talking about, about, um, about Substack, um, you can launch a Substack. 3 times in the scene
Telling stories with charts
- ▶ 31:59 Benedict Evans Um, I did not do a deep dive into what's happening in social, what happens after TikTok, you know, how do we think about TikTok and Clubhouse and Substack and all the new Chinese stuff and everything that's going to happen next.
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 0:33 Benedict Evans And Substack has become one of the hot topics in Silicon Valley. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:37 Benedict Evans Substack is Jesus, obviously. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:49 Benedict Evans Substack haven't really answered that question. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:01 Benedict Evans This is where you get this really interesting sort of, I mean, there was a piece somebody wrote that said, look at all the people on the leaderboard on Substack. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:28 Benedict Evans There was no subset there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:25 Benedict Evans Subs that leaderboard dude, and think about what real money looks like, and what a real leader, real leaderboard looks like.
The acceleration of ecommerce habits
- ▶ 25:59 Benedict Evans Which is also what's happening with Substack, which is another conversation rabbit hole that could go down. 3 times in the scene