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Puri: Business Content Creators Are Usually 'B Players' Teaching 'C Players'
“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 …”
Puri: Creator platforms like Patreon and Substack make for crappy businesses
“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.”
Puri: Substack newsletter growth claims are inflated by deceptive auto-subscribes
“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…”
Balaji: Substack broke out due to legacy East Coast media decline
“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?”
Pompliano: Warren Buffett was the original finance influencer and master marketer
“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.”
Helwani: All Substack subscription proceeds are donated to charity
“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.”
Helwani breaks down his multi-platform media partnerships after leaving ESPN
“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.”