“The same way that you might write a piece of software and change how a million people do their jobs, you could write a great essay and change the world.” @SubstackInc has tens of millions of active users today. One major factor behind that success, CEO @cjgbest told @andrewchen: making it “radically easy” for creators to connect with their audience. “There’s so many people that have something very valuable to give the world,” especially once they have “a real business model” to offer that value, and then be compensated for it. Giving them that power is “a Promethean act,” he said, allowing for more content to be created. Chris spoke with Andrew at SF Tech Week, detailing Substack’s early days, through recent growth, and what he sees as Substack’s next chapter. Scaling has been “a great, fun engineering challenge” along the way, he said. “That’s a better challenge than figuring out some really cool, deep technological problem, and then realizing you didn’t make something that anybody cares about." Listen to Chris and Andrew’s conversation, on the a16z podcast now: https://app.magellan.ai/listen_links/23xNeB