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Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
- ▶ 0:59 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how two partners built a getaway vehicle for journalists called Substack, a platform where writers could connect directly with their readers and write pretty much what they wanted. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:14 Hamish McKenzie And we, we had this conversation about Chris is the systems thinker and the genius who is mostly responsible for the substack model.
- ▶ 34:33 Chris Best When you subscribe on Substack, you don't subscribe to Substack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:35 Guy Raz You're just working on trying to create this thing that would become Substack. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:08 Chris Best And I think with Substack, we're trying to do the opposite of that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:54 Guy Raz So, it's around 2019, and Chris and Hamish have built a solid scaffolding for Substack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:30 Guy Raz Matt Taibbi, Andrew Sullivan, Barry Weiss, leaves the New York Times, starts a sub stack. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:03 Guy Raz And so the theory is, like, if people are writing a lot of nonsense, they're just not going to succeed on Substack because it's not an outrage machine like social media. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:47 Guy Raz Uh, sort of social media platform in terms of, of shaping policy because it's clearly read in the White House and, um, he buys it and one of the things that happens in 2023 is you guys launch notes, which is a sort of a short feature where… 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:47 Guy Raz Uh, sort of social media platform in terms of, of shaping policy because it's clearly read in the White House and, um, he buys it and one of the things that happens in 2023 is you guys launch notes, which is a sort of a short feature where… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:26 Guy Raz Um, Substack is not yet profitable, which is not, um, unusual, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:57 Guy Raz That's Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie, co-founders of Substack. 4 times in the scene
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- ▶ 0:59 Guy Raz You can sign up for free at gyros GuyRoz.com or on Substack, and we'll put all this info in the podcast
- ▶ 45:02 Guy Raz It could be a, it could be a great blog or a sub stack or something, but, but where you've got, you know, a, somebody who really has between 10 and 50,000 people who are regularly consuming their content, the, the cost for that ad spend is…
- ▶ 48:53 Guy Raz You can sign up for it for free at gyros.com or on Substack, and of course, if you're working on a business and you'd like to be on this show, send us a one-minute message that tells us a little bit about your business and the questions or…
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