Chris Best
@cjgbest
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Builder. Co-founder/CEO @SubstackInc with @jairajs89 and @hamishmckenzie
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2011
We've raised $100m in Series C funding for Substack. Thrilled to partner with @moodrowghani at @bondcap, TCG, plus @JensGrede, @RichPaul4, and @a16z
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I can see four from my office window, including the one we are flying
Got asked whether or not people are flying their American flags at half-mast in San Francisco. TRICK QUESTION! There are no American flags in San Francisco.
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Here's my proposal. If you're a left YIMBY, build in the Art Nouveau style. If you're a right YIMBY, build in Art Deco style. We can all agree this will result in optimally beautiful cities, with correct ideological attribution.
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"You have to be able to know the difference between things that you're trying to figure out if they will work and things that you have decided that they must work..." - Substack's @cjgbest talking about founder mode on The Social Radars.
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We are the computers' boss, and we should tell them to do what serves us well
Algorithms will do whatever we tell them to. @cjgbest: "Algorithms are powerful, and they're a tool that people use, and they serve the ends that we tell them." "What if there was an algorithm that actually served you and that was actually trying to help you find the things
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New episode out now with @cjgbest, CEO of Substack on free speech, long-form writing, and the attention economy. (0:48) The 2020 Media Landscape and Free Speech (3:19) Substack’s Founding Philosophy (6:10) The Evolution of Blogging and Business Models (11:41) The Vision
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How you spend your time is how you spend your life
Social media killed boredom. The constraint on content is no longer quantity. It’s quality.  @cjgbest: "We've entered a world where attention is the scarce resource." "You're spending your life when you choose what media to consume."
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we're so back
@cjgbest been live with you guys for five seconds and "age of balls" just flew out of me. stars are all aligned. we're so back.
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Did it share a Substack link?
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Why X deprioritizing links makes (a certain kind of) sense
Social platforms and creator goals are fundamentally misaligned, says @SubstackInc CEO @cjgbest. He explains why @X links get buried, how platforms keep you scrolling, and why Substack chose email instead. Full episode out now.
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The haters said we’d never see >10% GPT growth, yet here we are
GPT-5 will represent a nearly 25% increase in version number over GPT-4
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Badass, @TheFIREorg
BREAKING: FIRE is suing Secretary of State Marco Rubio, challenging the laws he is using to target lawfully present noncitizens for speech protected by the Constitution. No administration should be able to deport lawfully present noncitizens for their opinions.
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Nice shirt @Noahpinion
New episode with @dwarkesh_sp and @Noahpinion on AGI and the economy. This is perhaps my favorite podcast conversation since joining a16z.
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