Chris Best

And in fact, I wasn't setting out to start a company when we started.

I was setting out to write an essay.

I was actually on sabbatical, taking some time off after my last company.

And I was writing this essay trying to outline my frustrations with the media economy on the internet along these lines.

And I felt at the time that it was already happening.

I felt I could look at

I would talk to people in 2017 and say, you know, I think Facebook and Twitter are driving us crazy.

And people would kind of go, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Yeah, maybe that's right.

But it didn't feel very serious.

And, you know, I'd say I think people are going to be willing to connect directly and subscribe to the voices they trust.

And people would say, yeah, maybe, I don't know, that's interesting.

Probably people will never pay for somebody.

And I think just a lot of that has proven effective.

you know, to my mind, true.

The thing that was sort of like an interesting curiosity when we started the company, people are starting to feel a lot more viscerally now.

And this is why you get these surveys.

People are saying like, I don't know if I can express exactly what's wrong, but something is wrong.

And I'm hungry for something better.

And I think you can look at – it's easy to be a doomer about that situation.