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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Substack comes up
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 1:10:24 Tara Seshan Another thing I highly recommend to people is if, if anyone follows the substack, um, like Simon Hazel's substack, where he does a slow read of important books, so he did one of War and Peace, and he's doing one of Wolf Hall, I think, or… 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 1:32:21 Marc Andreessen Um, and I think this is a huge part of like the sub stack phenomenon and the newsletter phenomenon and the podcast phenomenon is like direct exposure to the people who are actually principals in the field who actually know what they're…
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- ▶ 1:30:08 Molly Graham You can find me on LinkedIn, and you can find me on Substack. 3 times in the scene
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 1:26:38 Jason Lemkin oh my God, I can't believe I, I didn't touch that since I launched the sub stack.
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- ▶ 1:24:11 Lenny Rachitsky And then I moved to sub stack
- ▶ 1:34:40 Julie Zhuo But for the long form stuff, I have my blog, the looking glass it's on sub stack.
How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
- ▶ 1:16:05 Oji Udezue Uh, they can find us on Substack. 2 times in the scene
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- ▶ 55:24 Brian Balfour Actually, you hitched yourself to substack super early. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:40 Brian Balfour You can in Substack now.
- ▶ 1:27:48 Brian Balfour You can find me personally, um, my writing, including a bunch of the stuff that we talked about today, uh, now on Substack.
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 18:10 Jake Knapp So Latchett, a couple of co-founders, Chris and James, who were, they had left Substack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:43 Jake Knapp Like you might find on sub stack and they've identified their differentiation.
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- ▶ 56:07 Maor Shlomo It could be, like, uh, opening, opening up a sub stack.
How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
- ▶ 1:04:05 Hilary Gridley It is hills.substack.com h-i-l-s.substack.com.
- ▶ 1:52:42 Hilary Gridley It's hills.substack.com. 2 times in the scene
How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna
- ▶ 43:29 Jerry Colonna What if all of those people who have signed up to my sub stack suddenly disappear?
Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- ▶ 45:31 Lenny Rachitsky So I was reading your newsletter on Substack, which we'll link to you, and you share this really interesting insight that I've experienced myself that I'll quote you here.
Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and PM’ing your career like a product | Deb Liu
- ▶ 46:10 Lenny Rachitsky And she has a great sub stack. 3 times in the scene
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 1:47:38 Mike Maples, Jr. There's a, well, we've got a sub stack. 2 times in the scene
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
- ▶ 20:28 Lenny Rachitsky It makes me think about Substack, actually, which started as a, just a platform for newsletter writers. 4 times in the scene
A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Sales Pitch)
- ▶ 1:28:19 April Dunford It's on sub stacks.
Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- ▶ 56:21 Lenny Rachitsky She's a PR comms person that's worked at Substack and Blizzard now, and that was her advice to people.
Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)
- ▶ 4:58 Karri Saarinen Block, Vercel, Ramp, Retool, Mercury, and Substack are, are building with Linear.
What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)
- ▶ 24:15 Lenny Rachitsky And I know people can go to your sub stack and read 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:44 Lane Shackleton And, uh, I have a sub stack. 2 times in the scene
How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (Author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, more)
- ▶ 0:53 Lenny Rachitsky He's also a popular podcaster, co-creator of the excellent substack Category Pirates, and is best known as the godfather of category design.
- ▶ 8:40 Christopher Lochhead I didn't know who you were until Substack, and I saw your logo, the fiery logo, and there was something endearing about your logo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:19 Lenny Rachitsky And then you'll, at the end, I'll ask you where to point people, but you have an awesome substack category, pirates.substack.com.
Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform)
- ▶ 4:06 Oji Udezue And the thing behind that is that there's a, you know, people can find that on Substack and on Medium with my writings, but the premise is that there's a lot of risk in building startups, right?
- ▶ 1:14:17 Oji Udezue I publish on Substack when I have time.
Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst
- ▶ 10:04 Camille Hearst I mean, you've seen nothing else from a sub stack and then patrons that people are actually really happy to be a patron of the arts.
- ▶ 12:00 Camille Hearst Which is why I think companies like Patreon and Substack are really cool because what they try to do is smooth out that revenue and make it so an artist can actually have a predictable, they're not even an artist, a creator can have a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:43 Lenny Rachitsky And these like very small number of platforms essentially want YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Patreon, maybe Substack.
Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)
- ▶ 36:20 Lenny Rachitsky The other tip I just thought about as you were talking is everyone's launching a Substack newsletter that has, is doing any sort of advising because there's a lot of, uh, power in building an audience and creating kind of awareness of what… 4 times in the scene
Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
- ▶ 1:23:41 Nikhyl Singhal And then the other one is this sort of newsletter that I have on Substack, which is a bit of a mirror of the podcast. 2 times in the scene
How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian)
- ▶ 1:06:09 Carilu Dietrich Follow me on LinkedIn, or I have a new blog, CarrieLou.com on Substack.
The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna
- ▶ 1:14:42 Elena Verna I'm on LinkedIn a lot, but I have started my own Substack, so please subscribe to my newsletter if you can. 3 times in the scene
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 1:01:07 Casey Winters So take Square or Substack or Patreon or like Eventbrite, right? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:25 Casey Winters Whereas, you know, the Substack reader will now allow me to be like, oh yeah, sure.
Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard)
- ▶ 1:30 Lenny Rachitsky I met Lulu while she was head of comms at Substack, where she was infamous for taking big risks and bold stands, and as a result, creating a lot of attention for Substack and other companies she's represented.
- ▶ 9:26 Lulu Cheng Meservey When you might remember this because this was the Substack era, when we were taking a lot of incoming for not censoring enough, and we took a stand that we want to encourage free expression. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:36 Lulu Cheng Meservey And if that were to go wrong and embarrass the company, or if that had made Chris or Hamish or Jayraj upset, that would have been upsetting to me and obviously a failure of my job. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:38 Lenny Rachitsky Like Substack I think is a good example where you just like helped elevate Substack on the world stage in a lot of ways.
- ▶ 20:36 Lulu Cheng Meservey Well, you and I have talked a lot about Substack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:30 Lulu Cheng Meservey Not a lot of people care that a journalist said something mean about Substack. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:24 Lenny Rachitsky It feels like you did that with Substack where it was focused on like people writing online or, or, or yeah, I guess, tell me, is that how you thought about it? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:44 Lulu Cheng Meservey So you carve out and it's the same, like succeeding on Substack or succeeding on, you know, creating anything on the internet, right?
- ▶ 43:55 Lulu Cheng Meservey If you don't have that, then you don't have a direct channel, even if you have a Twitter or a Substack or whatever.
- ▶ 54:24 Lulu Cheng Meservey Do you do a sub stack? 3 times in the scene
Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
- ▶ 45:16 Lenny Rachitsky Like I only named it that cause that was the default recommendation when I was signing up for Substack.
Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 13:08 Sriram Krishnan You know, you are Substack's homegrown talent. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:11 Sriram Krishnan Like Linny, obviously is so much smarter than me at writing a subsections letter, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:09 Sriram Krishnan I want to, you know, write content, or I want to start a sub stack, or I want to do a podcast.
Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
- ▶ 50:48 Chris Hutchins Danny has a paid newsletter on sub stack where he actually breaks down all his downloads and all his tactics on how this is all working for him.
- ▶ 57:59 Lenny Rachitsky I, I host on sub stack is maybe one difference.
What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
- ▶ 1:03:22 Lenny Rachitsky He's got a great newsletter, askgibs.substack.com, I think.
- ▶ 1:03:50 Ian McAllister Ian McAllister.substack.com.
Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
- ▶ 1:19 Lenny Rachitsky He's got the top engineering newsletter on Substack.
- ▶ 4:41 Lenny Rachitsky Your newsletter is the number one technology newsletter on Substack, called the Pragmatic Engineer, by the way. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:15 Gergely Orosz This one was when Substack introduced recommendations, which has been a massive growth engine.
Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)
- ▶ 0:16 Sachin Monga And in the early days of SubSec, there was a couple of these glimmers of hope where you'd have people like Matt Taibbi or Bill Bishop, some of the early writers on SubSec that were 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14 Lenny Rachitsky Today, my guest is Sachin Manga, who is currently the head of product at Substack. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:42 Lenny Rachitsky Substack has changed my life in so many ways. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:12 Lenny Rachitsky I want to spend a little time on that, but coming back to Substack, I'm curious just how the product team runs. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Sachin Monga Chris is the CEO of Substack and the person you're mentioning, um, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:40 Lenny Rachitsky I'm curious, what were you able to take from that experience about how Facebook and a massive company like that builds product to a smaller company like Substack? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:03 Lenny Rachitsky I know it's sub stack writers are like the beacon and the vision of making writers successful, helping people make a living writing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:21 Lenny Rachitsky I feel like it's maybe the most underappreciated radical shift in Substack and just like platforms in general. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:35 Lenny Rachitsky Something else I'll mention that I've learned to do is I feel so fortunate being early on Substack and having this thing grow so much, especially from this recommendation feature that I'm, I'm actually getting pings from people regularly… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:08 Sachin Monga We actually have now, we've set up something called the product lab, which I'm really excited about. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:02 Lenny Rachitsky Something else that always comes to mind with Substack is it's often in the news. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:39 Lenny Rachitsky I'm curious where you see Substack going as a product long-term. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:38 Lenny Rachitsky For, writers that are thinking about starting a newsletter, thinking about joining Substack, what sorts of 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:02 Sachin Monga One thing that's kind of interesting here that I think we have a big opportunity to improve in the product is that there's going to be obviously varying levels of intent that people have when they hit that start your sub stack button. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:43 Sachin Monga This is what we work on at Substack. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:13 Lenny Rachitsky As I've shared, Substack is very near and dear to my heart, and I'm really thankful that you spent time to dig into a lot of these things that have been on my mind, and I imagine will be helpful to a lot of other people. 5 times in the scene
How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1)
- ▶ 5:13 Emily Kramer My newsletter is, um, the letter is mktone.substack.com.
Overcome imposter syndrome and accelerate your career | Julie Zhuo (Sundial, Facebook)
- ▶ 1:13:24 Julie Zhuo I also have a newsletter, although I haven't actually been as active in it on Substack. 3 times in the scene