#121 Substack(valued $600M+)’s Co-founder, Hamish McKenzie
Smart Venture Podcast
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Is Substack a Good Product?
The first publisher on Substack was a friend of mine, Bill Bishop. He immediately got to Six Figures of Revenue on his first day. The second writer was an NBA writer who had been laid off from Yahoo Sports. Daniel Laverie is one of the editors of a cult humor site called The Toast. And Danny did standingly well for him despite being a totally different use case in that he's writing for an audience of like librarians and they were paying $5 a month or $50 a year.
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