It is fair to say that Substack has had a dramatic week and a half or so, and I talked to their CEO Chris Best about it. The company announced a new feature called Substack Notes, which looks quite a bit like Twitter — Substack authors can post short bits of text to share links and kick off discussions, and people can

Chris Best is co-founder and CEO of Substack, a subscription publishing platform for independent writers. Founded in 2017, Substack creates a better future for writing by letting writers own their work and their relationship with their audience. Before Substack, Chris was the co-founder and CTO of the mobile messenger

Chris Best is a tech entrepreneur, CEO of Substack and one of its co-founders. www.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Substack's founder and CEO about empowering writers through free expression (and his company's new, foosball-table-free San Francisco offices) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How is Substack changing online media, and are those changes making our discourse better or worse?  Substack CEO Chris Best joins the show to discuss all things Substack.  We talk about Substack's origins and mission, the various ways in which Substack differs from traditional media outlets, some of the recent controve

Substack is known for recruiting high profile writers to leave the big name publications and start their own newsletter businesses. Now it wants to recruit writers you haven’t heard of, and get them to cover local news. Cofounders Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie talk to Recode’s Peter Kafka about their plans — as well a