Substack

“I don't like Patreon. I don't like Substack for the same reason. I think they are amazing products. They are good for the world, but they make for crappy businesses.”

“The decline of the existing East Coast media corporations has led to this exodus where this thing that was an okay idea became an amazing idea because there's suddenly a need for it, right?”

“The most successful people, the true icons, you know, they're not creating a ton of content typically. And sometimes they do when they retire, sometimes it's part of their growth strategy, but for the most part, Elon Musk doesn't have a sub stack, right? He's …”

“It's this low cost instead of let's say sub stack that take 10% of all your revenue. Ghost just says, Hey, pay us 10 bucks a month and we're happy. And so they don't take a percentage of your revenue.”

“He just quit ESPN where he was probably making close to a million dollars a year as a host. And he created a sub stack, his own podcast, and he's kind of building like a little media media empire.”

“Now I'm working with Vox, my old friends at Vox Media, with the Ringer Spotify, with Substack, with BT Sport. I did a thing for Showtime recently, BetMGM, and, ah, it's great.”

“All the proceeds that I was getting from the subs, I'm donating to charity. So I want people to know I'm not profiting off of any of this.”

“Anyone on Substack that's talking about your newsletter growth? You're full of shit is my answer to you. Like you are absolutely full of shit. It's like, people think they're filling out a captcha and they're just actually subscribing to 90 newsletters, like a…”

“Warren Buffett was the original finance influencer, right? And I, I've joked a million times that if he was today, Buffett in his thirties, he'd have a sub stack, a Twitter account, a podcast. He'd be streaming on TikTok, like doing all this stuff.”