Substack
7 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 9, 2023 by Trung Phan · said 66 times in 33 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Greg Isenberg (28), Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) (4), David Perell (4), Sari Azut (3), Nicolas Cole (3), Trung Phan (2), Jackson Greathouse Fall (2), Dan Shipper (2)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2024 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
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- How To Make $10 MILLION from scratch
- 3 AI app ideas that are goldmines (and how to grow them)
- He has 1M+ followers and $1M startup ideas for you
- How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)
- How To Build A Million-Dollar Media Empire | Erik Torenberg
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 32 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Personal Holding Companies: Build vs. Buy?
- How To Build An Audience From Scratch | Yung Pueblo
- Trung Phan on The Hustle, ChatGPT, and TikTok
- Everything I learned this week
- How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano
- From Zero to 100,000: How Jackson Greathouse Mastered Twitter Growth
- Unveiling Chris Josephs' Million-Dollar Meme Strategy
- How To Make MILLIONS As A Faceless YouTuber | Dru Riley
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2022 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Writing, Religion, and Walt Disney with David Perell
- The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios
- Why Every Creator Should Have a Newsletter with Austin Rief
- Money, Wealth, and Personal Holding Companies with Michael Karnjanaprakorn
- Betting Big on Web3 with Li Jin
- Are We Alone In The Universe? (with Tim Urban)
- Forget Zero Sum, Be Positive Sum with Harley Finkelstein | Where It Happens
- The Wolf of All Streets, Scott Melker | Where It Happens
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
Everything said about Substack, oldest first
Mar 9, 2023 positive
Phan: Former operators make better newsletter writers than trained journalists
“The best writers I know are not people that came up as journalists. The best writers are former industry people. Like, I mean, who's going to outright community stuff or what your expertise is, right? Like you're going to be the best about that. Like, A journa…”
Mar 9, 2023
Apr 27, 2023 positive
Oct 5, 2023 positive
Diego Perez: Substack founders are committed to algorithm-free direct audience delivery
“In the past, like, three years, I've been really focusing on just building a newsletter and I've found a home on Substack because I've become friends with the people who have built Substack and have seen the depth of their commitment to how they're always goin…”
Jan 18, 2024 negative
Cole: Substack writers miss massive upside by only selling subscriptions
“The missed opportunity is realizing that the recurring revenue is the beginning, not the end. So what you, what happens is you have all these creators that go, I started a paid newsletter, and then they reach success. You have paid newsletters on Substack doin…”
Jul 31, 2024 bearish
Isenberg warns against building blog-first platforms to compete with Substack
“I'm not a big fan of like, okay, let's go and create the next sub stack, but like make it more blog first. Cause I think that's really hard and you're competing against people who've raised tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars.”