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Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil iPadell, Editor in Chief of the Verge, and Decoder

is my new podcast about big ideas and other problems.

Today's episode is one I've wanted to do forever. I'm talking to Chris Best, CoFounder and CEO

of Substack. That's the subscription newsletter startup that's been taking the media industry

by storm over the last few months. High profile journalists like Glenn Greenwald, Andrew

Sullivan and Anne Helen Peterson have left their jobs at traditional media companies to start

paid newsletters on Substack.

My friend Casey Newton recently left the Verge and launched a Substack newsletter called

Platformer, which is great. You should subscribe to it.

The appeal is obvious and simple. Instead of working for a boss, you can work for yourself.

Instead of having your salary determined by management, you can make more money just

by getting more subscribers. And most importantly, instead of feeling like you're chasing clicks

in an ad-supported business model, getting paid directly by subscribers, theoretically

incentivizes a different and better kind of journalism.

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