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Newsletters and The Culture Wars — With Substack CEO Chris Best

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July 14, 2021

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Newsletters and The Culture Wars — With Substack CEO Chris Best

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Summary

Chris Best is the CEO of Substack, an email newsletter platform that lets writers send newsletters and charge subscribers a monthly fee. The platform — which I use for my Big Technology newsletter — is squarely in the middle of the battle over online speech, looked at by some as an alternative that will displace professional media.

Best joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss his company's position in these speech battles, how he personally feels about the professional media, his investor Andressen Horowitz, and whether paid subscriptions are a better model than advertising.

You can subscribe to my Big Technology Newsletter here: https://bigtechnology.substack.com/

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