Substack

“And I want to keep it kind of free and open. I think it grows better. More people can read it. It creates more serendipity. Like there's just a lot of good things that come if I'm, you know, kind of willing to trade off the security of a paid subscription.”

“I don't think they're going to be building an ad network anytime soon, which is fine by me”

“I'm at about 45,000 free and about 30 3300 paid at this point.”

“And so, yeah, I launched it and I got about 200 paid subscribers in the first couple of days. And then I got up to about 400 something in the first month and just kept growing.”

“I don't know if anyone really has a moat. What's interesting is their pitch is you can come and you can leave anytime you want, which works really well for people like me that join. Cause there's no reason not to try it, but then the downside of people can lea…”

“Why are you giving medium all of your content? They're gaining all of the upside, all of the SEO, all the subscribers. You don't get any email addresses of your audience. So you have no access if you leave. And so that was the benefit of sub stack. And it was …”

“Like the lady that's at the top of Substack right now, Heather Cox Richardson I'm rooting for her. She's making a million bucks.”

“People don't go there for, you know, analytical content anymore. They go there for the product announcements and that kind of thing, and so in order to do this right, I'm gonna start a new brand. I'm gonna do this on Substack instead”

“One of my close friends from being in Austin is one of the founders of Substack. So I was an early investor there.”

“I actually write a weekly newsletter called Growth Unhinged. It's on Substack. Ah, I don't spend any money on acquiring users, but it, the, Newsletter's grown from zero to more than 20,000 readers in two years, and it's because of the community around the cont…”