Chris Best
Chris Best is the co-founder and CEO of Substack, a subscription publishing platform for independent writers and creators that he helped launch in 2017. He previously co-founded the mobile messaging app Kik, where he served as chief technology officer and helped scale the product to over 300 million users. He is best known for building Substack into a prominent platform that enables writers to earn money directly from readers through paid subscriptions, with the aim of addressing what he views as a broken economic model for independent media.
“Substack CEO Chris Best said there's a lot of 'soulless slop,' and while the team isn't against AI-generated writing, readers should know what they're getting.”
Source→“Chris Best, the CEO, thought it was really messed up that all of these incredible bloggers who had changed people's lives and who had huge readerships like Scott Alexander were doing it for free rather than being rich as they deserved to be.”
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