Chris Best
@cjgbest
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Builder. Co-founder/CEO @SubstackInc with @jairajs89 and @hamishmckenzie
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2011
The US can be a much-needed leader on free speech, but not if we’re deporting people for Substack posts.
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Congrats @thejessezhang and team!!.
Today, I’m thrilled to announce @Decagon's $131M series C at a $1.5B valuation. The round was co-led by @a16z and @Accel, bringing our total funding to $231M.
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Honestly I think we already did.
We must train AGI to destroy all human social media.
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RT @ezraklein: .@DKThomp is moving to Substack and it's going to be so, so good. Here's part of his manifesto: . "In bookstores, Abundance….
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Welcome!.
Some personal news. Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack. It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight, a grievance, a shouting match with an.
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wait that looks good what platform is that.
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Welcome to Substack.
Just launched on Substack. We have to flood the zone and continue to cut through the right wing disinformation machine. Follow & tune in for my first live conversation with @AaronParnas at 11:30am PT today! .
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RT @michaelmiraflor: Your favorite Substackers being invited to meet & greets at big tech events in 2025 has the same energy as your favori….
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RT @noor_siddiqui_: BIG NEWS! Ashlee Vance just profiled the first parents with not one — but two— Orchid superbabies. This is just the be….
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RT @MattMahanSJ: I try to stay in my San Jose lane, but as a former East Side public school teacher I have to say — this is a terrible diss….
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RT @DanielLurie: We owe our young people an education that prepares them to succeed. The proposed changes to grading at SFUSD would not acc….
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It's completely free to publish on Substack!.
We asked @cjgbest about @SubstackInc's business model. "It's completely free to publish on Substack.". "We make money when you make money. We're tuning the algorithm to introduce people to things they deeply value and might pay for.". "The emergent effect of that is very
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Going on TBPN makes me feel like a real Technology Business.
"The media landscape is shifting." - @cjgbest, co-founder of @SubstackInc. "The legacy models have been eaten up by the internet.". "There's a shift in power to independent creators like @tbpn, and it's not going away."
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RT @tbpn: We asked @cjgbest about the founding visions of @SubstackInc. "The basic theory is we are building a new economic engine for cul….
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