Chris Best
11 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 12, 2025 by Chris Best · across every show →
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May 12, 2025 positive
Best: Audiences refuse to pay for internet content, except for favorites
“I devised this like parlor trick where when somebody told me they would never pay for something on the internet, I would say, well, who's your favorite writer? And they'd say, oh, you know, Guy Raz, or whoever. And then I would say, would you pay five bucks a …”
May 12, 2025 bullish
Chris Best: Substack does not need to raise outside capital again
“We're not running the company to, like, turn a profit, but the thing that is true, and we've kept true pretty much the whole time, is we don't need to raise money again. We're not on this clock. We have, like, we are in control of our financial destiny.”
May 12, 2025 positive
May 12, 2025 positive
Best: Substack was pitched to journalists as a media 'getaway vehicle'
“I had this speech that I would give to people at the time. I was like, think of sub stack as your getaway vehicle. You don't have to get in it right now, but like, Fuel it up, have the engine idling, like create your account, like claim your handle, have this …”
May 12, 2025 neutral
May 12, 2025 neutral
May 12, 2025 negative
Best: Facebook charged creators to build audiences then charged again for reach
“And this had happened with Facebook pages at this point. They created a thing where people spent all this money getting people to like their Facebook page on the assumption that that meant they'd built up an audience. And then they said, oh, just kidding. Actu…”
May 12, 2025 positive
McKenzie: Media succeeds when readers replace advertisers as paying customers
“The core insight he had was that you should make readers the customers instead of advertisers the customers. And if you change that core dynamic, especially if you monetize the relationship over time through enough subscription, then different things are possi…”
May 12, 2025 negative
Best: Facebook's core issue is working too well without serving its users
“The problem with Facebook is not that it doesn't work, right? The problem with Facebook is that it works too well. And doesn't serve the people who use it. Right. Yes, it kills all the newspapers, but it's a massively successful business that takes, takes adva…”
May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025 neutral
Best: Writers rarely realize subscription earning potential until shown the math
“It's surprising how much you have to do that multiplication for people. Like, it's not that they can't do it themselves, it's that they won't do it. And the number of times I've had a conversation that's like, you know, so-and-so has 10,000 subscribers paying,…”