Chris Best

And we were trying to recruit him and trying to recruit him, like basically like, quit your job, come to Substack.

But he eventually, instead of doing that, went on to be a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

And he sort of reached back out to us and was like, hey, like, you should come talk to us.

And we're like, no, no, no, we don't have time for that.

We're like, we're heads down, we're building.

He's like, well, you know, come for dinner with Mark.

Come hang out.

Like, let's talk.

And they ended up sort of like preempting our Series A and putting some money in, which was like another shot in the arm, I would say.

My media consumption habits now, I honestly read a lot of Substack.

Yeah.

Partly it's, you know, I can justify it to myself that it's like I'm working and I'm dogfooding and using the product, which is true.

And also, I love it.

It's really good.

And we're building a lot of parts of the product and I'm very involved in it and I have really strong opinions on it.

I would say outside of Substack, you know, I read books a bit.

Occasionally we'll watch something on TV, but really Substack is probably the majority of my media, to be honest.

I would say it is the thing that social media can become.

It's what social media should have been.

So we started working on that several years ago, and it was kind of the same story of