E1016 Substack CEO Chris Best empowers writers via email newsletter platform, raised $15M from a16z
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Substack CEO & Co-Founder Chris Best empowers writers via his email newsletter platform, shares insights on driving change in the attention economy, raising $15M from a16z, providing value to retain talent & more 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 alignment problem and how it relates to content consumption 13:58 What bad behaviors have Google & Facebook's ad algorithms created? How is Chris working to fix them? 18:09 Gamification's imp…