Why your favorite writers are taking their talents to Substack. Plus: Peacock!

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Substack is a service that helps writers created paid newsletter businesses. It’s also finding lots of writers — like Andrew Sullivan — who want to go to work for themselves. CEO Chris Best sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk about his rapidly growing startup, and what it means for the media industry. Later, The Verge’s Julia Alexander calls in to give her thoughts on the recent launch of NBC Universal’s newest streaming service, Peacock. Featuring: Chris Best (@cjgbest), CEO and Co-Founder of Substack Julia Alexander (@loudmouthjulia), reporter for The Verge Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:38.1	That is me sweating in Brooklyn, which is where I'm taping this episode.
1:42.9	I want to welcome back to the show, Chris Best,
1:46.1	he is the CEO of Substack, which is a company. I think many people who listen to this show
1:52.3	have heard about. It allows you to become your own one-person media company via newsletters. Welcome, Chris.
1:59.6	Thanks for having me. You've been on the show before. I haven't spoken to before. Casey Newton from The Verge stepped in and did a guest host job and really should have kept that job. He does a better job than me. But that's a very good conversation. If you're interested in learning more about Substact after this conversation, go up and find the one we did. I think it is early fall of 2018. You can dig that one up.
2:19.7	It's so long ago now. It's so long ago. And I first wrote about you guys in 2017 when you
2:25.2	were launching. And I thought, this is an interesting little business. It allows people who want to
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