I really hope, both for our sake as writers and their sake as genuine entrepreneurs, that Substack can become a profitable company and doesn’t fall into the venture scaling at all costs trap. Why do you need advertising? It pollutes the content quality and the relationship between reader and writer. Could easily see how Substack could bo…
I really hope, both for our sake as writers and their sake as genuine entrepreneurs, that Substack can become a profitable company and doesn’t fall into the venture scaling at all costs trap. Why do you need advertising? It pollutes the content quality and the relationship between reader and writer. Could easily see how Substack could bootstrap itself and just grow slower (as he pointed out at the end) and focus on subscription revenue. I wonder if Andreesen will let them… (news flash: they probably won’t).
I really hope, both for our sake as writers and their sake as genuine entrepreneurs, that Substack can become a profitable company and doesn’t fall into the venture scaling at all costs trap. Why do you need advertising? It pollutes the content quality and the relationship between reader and writer. Could easily see how Substack could bootstrap itself and just grow slower (as he pointed out at the end) and focus on subscription revenue. I wonder if Andreesen will let them… (news flash: they probably won’t).