Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn’t Realize He’s Just Become The Nazi Bar

I get it. I totally get it. Every tech dude comes along and has this thought: “hey, we’ll be the free speech social media site. We won’t do any moderation beyond what’s required.” Even Twitter init…

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@mmasnick @nilay_patel

The line I liked was "And literally, we launched this thing one day ago. We’re going to have to figure a lot of this stuff out."

They spent some time putting this together and thinking about its marketing, processes, etc. so Substack Notes didn't just spring out of Best's head like Athena overnight without any time to FIGURE A LOT OF THIS STUFF OUT. My guess is that what they figured out was they were going to deliberately ignore it.

@darrelplant @mmasnick

Yeah, "move fast and break things" is a tenet of our industry that I really wish would die. But, I'm unclear how to kill it.

The market & investors reward the folks who get out there first & early and externalize as much risk & cost as possible to everyone but themselves. There's little profit & hype in holding back until you get it right.

(Well, I guess Apple can kind of get away with that for gadgets, but that's a different story)