Chris Best
Substack co-founder and CEO; Kik co-founder
Substack co-founder and CEO; Kik co-founder
Every podcast episode featuring Chris Best that Attunex has found: 72 interviews and appearances across 54 shows between 2018 and 2026. Most often on Channels with Peter Kafka (4), TechCheck (4) and TBPN (3). Often in conversation with Alex Heath, Erik Torenberg and Guy Raz. Follow Chris in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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Minule jsme slíbili díl o tom, jak se změnilo psaní v době AI a jestli je to fake, nebo není. Slib plníme a rovnou se odkopeme: oba píšeme s AI. Hmm, jestli patříte k fandům novodobého honu na…
Substack, the platform popular for online newsletters, recently launched an artificial intelligence detection feature powered by Pangram. The detector allows users to scan text and get an estimate…
Nothing Was In The Water — Limited Edition Jonathan's piece, the premise of the episode Against Claudefishing — Chris Best's case for the feature Writing Quality After AI — Sam's article on origin,…
Substack starts detecting AI On 21 July, Substack switched on a Pangram-built tool that scans anything over 100 words and labels it human, AI-assisted or AI-generated. CEO Chris Best calls the…
I sit down with Substack co-founder and CEO Chris Best for a wide-ranging conversation about AI slop, what it does to the public square, and how writers can use powerful tools without outsourcing…
(01:58) - China's AI Push Sounds Alarms (36:37) - Should You Recline Your Airplane Seat? (42:47) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (51:39) - Ferdinand Dabitz, the 25-year-old CEO of Augustus Bank, discusses the…
When Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi founded Substack in 2017, digital publishing was dominated by platforms like Medium, which took significant cuts of creator revenue, and traditional…
Hi all, Last week was a whirlwind. I went to my college reunion at RISD reunion and Substack’s first media summit. No surprise, but I had notes. Somehow, this reunion turned into a conversation about…
Alex and Ellis sit down with Chris Best, CEO of Substack, for a live interview at the ACCESS launch party at Notion HQ in San Francisco. They get into Substack's growth, the future of media, and the…
Chris Best is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Substack. In 2017, he co-founded Substack, the publishing platform that helped popularize paid newsletters and direct-to-audience media businesses…
Nearly every tech CEO I talk to right now is obsessed with two things: AI and prediction markets. In that order, but barely. Yesterday, I interviewed Substack CEO Chris Best about his new integration…
Join Brian Swichkow for a deep dive into the accelerating AI agent wars, featuring OpenAI's new API primitives, Hashline's coding efficiency leaps, and WebMCP's agent-driven web execution. We explore…
Ed Elson speaks with Chris Best, co-founder and CEO of Substack. They discuss how the company stood out against competitors, why video has become increasingly important to its audience, and where the…
⭐ Upscrolled EMERGES, CENSORSHIP by YouTube, Substack, IndieGoGo, & TikTok, Privacy Suit at WhatsApp Al Jazeera STILL Using YouTube to punish independents for fair use - this time Kevork Almassian…
⭐ Substack Bends the Knee to Age Verification Laws Hamish McKenzie says it https://substack.com/@hamish/note/c-183261226?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=539iu Chris Best also opposes it, but will…
Chris Best is the co-founder and CEO of Substack, the platform powering the rise of independent writers, podcasters, and thinkers. At Substack, Chris has reimagined what sustainable media looks like,…
Patrick McKenzie is joined by Chris Best, CEO of Substack, to discuss how the platform created new economic infrastructure for independent media. They explore Substack's evolution from a simple…
Earlier today, Substack CEO Chris Best and I chatted via in-app live video. We discussed why I started Sources and the current state of tech media. Hope you enjoy!
In this episode, taped in front of a live audience, Chris Best tells us the story of Substack. He reminisces about his adventures with Elon Musk, and explains how he persisted in bringing to market a…
What if the future of media isn’t controlled by algorithms or legacy institutions—but by independent voices building directly with their audiences? In this episode, Erik Torenberg is joined by Chris…
"If you're a consistent advocate for freedom of the press, you will unfortunately have occasion to quarrel with every party and every side of the political spectrum," says Substack CEO Chris Best. As…
(00:09) - Astronomer CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert (11:31) - New Tesla Model Y L Breakdown (16:18) - JUUL Approved by the FDA (01:02:49) - Is AI Causing Historic Crashouts? (01:29:16) - Chris Power,…
This week, we're republishing a conversation from last month between Noah Smith and Substack CEO Chris Best, originally streamed on Substack Live. They discuss the future of media in an AI-driven…
Today on Moment of Zen, we're airing a conversation with economist Noah Smith and Substack CEO Chris Best discussing the evolving media landscape. They dive into whether Twitter's dominance is…
Podcast : How I Built This with Guy Raz (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie Pub date : 2025-05-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 -…
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Substack was founded to create an escape vehicle for writers: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie imagined a world where writers didn’t have to rely on legacy publications or corporate advertisers, but…
Substack was founded to create an escape vehicle for writers: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie imagined a world where writers didn’t have to rely on legacy publications or corporate advertisers, but…
Podcast : The Generalist (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Inside Substack’s $650M Playbook for the Future of Media (Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie, Co-Founders) Pub date : 2025-05-06 Get…
Tina Brown, a former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, has joined Substack, a self-publishing platform for independent writers. Speaking in the week of the Truth Tellers summit, which she…
Ros Atkins & Katie Razzall talk to the self professed Media Diva Tina Brown. The former editor in chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and the founding editor in chief of The Daily Beast…
In a world where attention is fragmented and algorithms rule the content landscape, Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie are taking a radically different approach with Substack. Rather than chasing clicks,…
Thank you Baz, Joan DeMartin, Caro Henry, Nadine Matheson, Robin Payes, and many others for tuning into my live video with Chris Best! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public…
Thanks to all who all who tuned in for my live video conversation with Chris Best , my friend and co-founder, and the CEO of Substack. We discussed how newspaper opinion sections are relics of a…
Chris Best is the CEO and co-founder of Substack. Find Chris: https://x.com/cjgbest Mentioned in the episode: https://www.amazon.com/See-Satan-Fall-Like-Lightning/dp/1570753199 This is a public…
Aaron Parnas is an independent journalist and attorney who built a following on TikTok by providing a Gen Z perspective on the news. After winning Substack’s TikTok Liberation Prize , Aaron went live…
Dan Harris is a bestselling author, the host of the 10% Happier podcast, and a former ABC news anchor. He went live with Substack CEO Chris Best yesterday to share the creative ways he’s been using…
In this episode, Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best joins a16z General Partner Andrew Chen to discuss the origins and evolution of Substack, a platform redefining media and empowering creators to…
Happy holidays. We're on a break, but we thought you might enjoy this episode from our friends at CANADALAND. It's a conversation about Substack's role in the future of journalism, featuring Paul…
What if the media you consume isn’t just how you spend your time—but who you become? Chris Best began his career as a software engineer, driven by the idea that writing code could transform how…
Journalists have flocked to Substack. Abandoning legacy titles to pursue self-puslishing freedom at the occasionally controversial app. Substack has incubated Bari Weiss's Free Press and Andrew…
My live video with Chris Best is available here as well, so it seems. Great talk, enjoyed being the one who answers the Qs this time. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with…
In this episode, we chat with Chris Best, CEO and Co-Founder of Substack. We discuss Substack's origin story, revenue model and its effects on the information ecosystem. We also speculate on the…
Chris is the co-founder and CEO of Substack. Prior to Substack, he co founded the messaging service Kik. In this episode of World of DaaS, Chris and Auren discuss: Attention, quality, and gatekeepers…
Today, I’m talking with Casey Newton, the founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast. Casey is also a former editor here at The Verge and was my co-host at…
Immad and Rajat go deep with Chris Best on how the written media landscape is rapidly evolving and how Substack's business model could transform the way we consume and build relationships with…
I caught up with Substack co-founders Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie at Substack’s office in San Francisco last week. They’re fresh off raising a community fundraising round and launching their…
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Warner Bros. Discovery's new streaming service, Sony's mobile gaming move, and Twitter's feud with Substack. Further reading: HBO and…
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…
Last week, Elon kicked off a feud with both Substack and his very own former Twitter Files ingénue (and Substack star), Matt Taibbi. Kara and Nayeema break down the battle of the bros before turning…
Last Thursday, I spoke to Substack CEO Chris Best to get a better understanding of where the company is going. We recorded the interview before Elon Musk threw a temper tantrum over Substack's coming…
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…
Russell chats to Chris Best, the CEO & co-founder of Substack about defending independent journalists and protecting free speech. The platform is home to independent journalists, such as Matt Taibbi,…
Join us as we talk to Chris Best , co-founder and CEO at Substack , a leading newsletter subscription platform. Five years ago, email newsletters sound downright archaic. Today, reading email…
Chris Best is co-founder and CEO of Substack. Chris's problem: How do you help writers make a living from a thousand true fans? Substack is a company that helps writers send subscription-based email…
Episode: The One About Back to School Date Recorded: August 16, 2022 Time: 10 p.m. Scheduled Guests: Gary McDaniel YouTube: TheBrianLennonShow Web site: Email: thebrianlennonshow@gmail.com Twitter:…
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Three interviews! One pod: First entrepreneur and investor Zach Weinberg tells Recode’s Peter Kafka why he’s accidentally become Twitter Famous as a crypto skeptic — and explains how you can do it,…
TechCheck’s Deirdre Bosa spoke with Substack CEO and co-founder Chris Best. Earlier this week the newsletter platform unveiled its own iOS app. They’ll discuss the decision to send newsletters from…
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…
Our anchors kick off the morning with some of this year’s tech winners and losers. Then, CNBC’s Robert Frank joins to cover Elon Musk, Tesla, taxes and a Twitter poll. Next, we bring in Canaccord…
Chris Best is the CEO and founder of Substack, an online publication platform that provides independent writers with distribution, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure. Chris represents an…
Plus... How the media should make sense of DC's budget battles; evaluating news coverage of the Gabby Petito case; explaining the Covid-19 false alarm on the set of 'The View;' and more. Timothy…
Chris Best co-founded Substack in 2017. Now the company is powering thousands of newsletters and turning some writers into millionaires. Brian Stelter interviews Best about Substack's business model;…
Our anchors start off the show with moves lower in Chinese gaming stocks and Alibaba post-earnings. Then, Wall Street Journal Reporter Joanna Stern is here to talk about Google’s decision to ditch…
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 —…
This morning our anchors dive into the story on the Department of Defense cancelling the JEDI Contract that had pitted Microsoft and Amazon against each other. Then, Microsoft Board Member John…
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…
Top writers are leaving publishers like the New York Times to become newsletter writers on Substack. How will the rise of the solopreneur author impact the future of journalism? Substack co-founders…
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…
What does the rise of newsletters mean for journalism? Is information overload real and how do we fix it? How can writers and journalists build independent businesses? Josh Constine's PressClub…
in der heutigen Ausgabe reden Stefan und Lars zunächst über ein Streitgespräch aus der ZEIT zwischen Carsten Knop von der FAZ und dem Künstler und YouTuber Rezo. Es geht um das Urheberrecht und die…
Megyn Kelly is joined by Parler founder and CEO John Matze, Substack co-founder and CEO Chris Best, and journalist and The Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald to talk about Big Tech and tech…
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Chris Best, founder of Substack, to talk about how he got started (6:40), newsletters v newspapers (11:20), Silicon Valley’s disgust with the media…
Nilay Patel talks to Chris Best, cofounder and CEO of Substack, the subscription newsletter startup that’s taken the media industry by storm over the past few months. The conversation explores how…
Traditional media models and most of the digital models are either straining under pressure or outright broken. Some journalists have responded by going out on their own, leveraging a new group of…
Tech entrepreneur Chris Best talks about Substack, his self-publishing platform that is attracting journalists like Andrew Sullivan, Jesse Singal and Jen Gerson Learn more about your ad choices.…
Substack is the newest savior for independent publishing, powering an array of subscription newsletters that give hope to the rise of a new class of journalist entrepreneurs. "On Substack there are…
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…
Chris Best is the Founder & CEO @ Substack , the company that makes it simple for a writer to start a paid newsletter. To date, Chris has raised over $17M in funding from the likes of a16z, Y…
Chris Best (@cjgbest), co-founder and CEO of Substack, joins Erik on this episode. They discuss: - How the idea for Substack came about and the early days of the company. - How the internet has…
We've been financing good writing with bad advertising -- and "attention monsters" (to quote Craig Mod) for way too long. So what happens when the technology for creators finally falls into place?…
1:00 Jason intros Chris Best 3:24 What happened to Kik? (Chris' first startup) What did he learn from it? 5:03 What is it about email newsletters that attracted Chris? 9:41 Chris explains the AI…
Chris Best is the cofounder and CEO of Substack . Substack makes it simple for a writer to start a paid newsletter. They were in the Winter 2018 batch of YC. You can check them out at Substack.com .…
Chris Best, the CEO and co-founder of Substack, talks with the Verge's Casey Newton about how and why writers are starting paid email newsletters. In this episode:01:40 - What is Substack?03:00 - Why…