"I really think that we're just starting into this Golden Era of what it might mean to be a writer on the internet the economic model for supporting great writing on the internet has been generally pre..."

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"that's so great to hear just to set a little context for folks can you just talk about how you got to substack you currently had a product that sub stack well it's kind of that journey to sub stack we..."

"and before your startup you're at Facebook for a number of years is that right yes I started in 2011 there on the growth team and had the chance to work on a bunch of different teams there growth plat..."

"makes sense so you currently align it around the user type of user plus kind of the infra and platform stuff do you have a sense of where this might evolve over the next few years just structure wise ..."

"area or product due sure awesome shout out to the writer team thanks for building all the awesome stuff that I get to use and it makes sense why you are more recently investing in the reader team beca..."

"so for the first couple months I'd say that was all I tried to do I think now Chris and I have some reps under our belt and the teams have some reps under under their belts too and that trust just sta..."

"your question I think I think that I really try to be mindful of right now is how do I get a really good sense of like how do I catch up Chris has been thinking about this problem for five times as lo..."

"awesome I'm curious what are the biggest challenges with being in the position you're in like are there any examples of a man that sucked or if you want to go in a different direction is there a certa..."

"every week every month certainly every year and I think that's easier said than done like it sounds good in theory but then when you're in the thick of it and you're constantly basically feeling like ..."

"the rate of change is a huge Factor the point you made about how things are going to keep changing as you grow such an important point that I don't feel like comes up as much as I thought would come u..."

"Facebook app which was what I was working on for the bulk of my time there Facebook might be the most extreme example of trying to solve so many different problems for so many different people in one ..."

"when you really get into the object level like what does your day look like I think being a PM at a high growth year I can at least just I can't generalize this but the job at sub stack right now it l..."

"might mean b is harder to do like forever and so I think whereas at a startup a lot of it is time time is the main variable we can do this now and that means that we can't do this other thing until la..."

"terms to Their audience make money directly from their subscribers and also that readers should be in control over their experience like when you show up to subside.com that experience should be somet..."

"wanted to talk about this recommendation feature I feel like it's maybe the most underappreciated radical shift in substack and just like Platforms in general I think this is going to go down as one o..."

"did this come to be sure the way it came to be was that we noticed this organic Behavior emerging which was that a lot of readers of sub Stacks were starting to discover other sub Stacks but the way t..."

"that worked really well and Facebook in particular I think glad I joined in 2011 it was definitely still during the era I think Facebook maybe had just over 500 million users and was on this path to b..."

"that's probably just gonna be really hard to pull off right it's just like you need there's a lot more things that have to be true you need writers to opt in you need to pick the good people to find a..."

"recommendations feature of course recommendations in particular is still just one component in this broader basket of network driven Discovery and I think we recently shared a set more than one in thr..."

"surfaced to people at a moment where not only are they just hearing about you for the first time but they might just be hearing about the recommending writer for the first time too they're new subscri..."

"hand having a huge pool of interested people that aren't ready to convert yet it's only beneficial and when I send a free post and mention hey I have a paid subscription you can get more it works real..."

"and to claim your discount get started today something else I'll mention that I've learned to do is I feel so fortunate being early on sub stack and having this thing grow so much especially from this..."

"faster better Etc and one of the principles like I guess in this Playbook that we're trying to write is we call it build with writers build with readers in some ways now they think about it it's almos..."

"helpful to have a bit of this infrastructure in place and often the thing that we end up shipping on day one tends to be pretty different from what we had in mind before we went through this process y..."

"of the way that I think our culture is internally being formed right now we tend to not get distracted seems to be the case I'm curious where you see sub stack going as a product long term what are yo..."

"relatively small number of people value it highly enough to pay for it and that's like a new thing and so when I see the next one to two years play out for the writer side of the equation a lot of wha..."

"let into that space and you might not spend two hours a day in there and that's fine but it might be the first place you go because it's where all the best stuff is and it's where your best communitie..."

"combination of features of just like a really simple blogging newsletter and collecting emails and maybe monetizing down the road yeah that's amazing to hear yeah so I think that just start advice is ..."

"charge I'm really excited and I actually view your sub stack as a Vanguard as a very kind of Leading Edge example of this of you have turned your sub stack into this not just this thriving community o..."

"kind of thing so anything you could share about what sorts of things you're thinking there and what you might be possible let's see guest posts are working really well and I'll say that we have a bunc..."

"right an interesting camera we did talk about whether we should change our default Publications you know your default name was like just like Lenny's newsletter and we probably gave you like a little ..."

"make me make all these decisions I just want to kind of get in the game I think that in general a mistake that people might make is uh maybe flip it back at an anecdote related to what I heard from Ch..."

"would totally pay if they could and so you know go back to that kind of like spectrum of am I just trying to write a blog post am I trying to start a media Empire it's kind of like many people won't k..."

"about what you're doing so think about as they're like a niche or something you're excited about that you can find a thousand people to pay you 10 bucks a month and you'll make and what's what's cool ..."

"talking about the internet and how in the grand scheme of things how lucky we are I don't even know what he wrote it maybe it was probably 10 years ago at this point but certainly at a time where a lo..."

"that you recommend most to other people I will plug some books that have nothing to do with the Internet or software or Tech but have been the most informative or instructive books for me I think in m..."

"awesome we're going to include that in the show notes for sure what are two or three sub Stacks that you recommend most speaking of recommendation features I was just thinking about this is I don't wr..."

"that's the Martyr made podcast and since I know this is supposed to be a lightning round and I spent too much time on that the two others that I'll just quickly throw out there Colin Malloy is one of ..."

"Google cream Abdul Japan you'll find it on the recommendation feature I was just thinking you want to shout out the folks that built it like I would love to let's do it yeah it's too many it was it en..."

"the next season same and final question what's a favorite interview question you like to ask folks when you're interviewing them I have a tough time answering this question because I have found that t..."

"to have one question that will get that signal you need to tailor it to that person's background all right I'll accept that matter answer thank you so much for being here as I've shared slip stack is ..."