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Thank you. Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.

Our guest today is Chris Best.

He is the CEO of Substack, an email newsletter platform

that lets writers send newsletters and charge subscribers a monthly fee to get them. My big technology

newsletter is on Substack, though I don't charge a fee yet, which I'm sure we'll discuss.

Substack is also smack in the middle of the culture war. And so we'll have plenty to chat

about there as well. Chris Best, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. The last time we spoke,

actually with voices, not emails, was in your apartment, I believe in the mission in San Francisco.

Was that?

Was that, that was your home?

Yes.

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