Substack with Chris Best

Substack is a platform for subscription based content, covering newsletters, podcasts, and soon video. The design and speed of the platform are notable–with a minimalistic format that simply gets creators paid for its work, Substack has gained massive popularity.

Chris Best is the CEO of Substack and joins the show to talk about the platform, architecture, and engineering of Substack.

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