Chris Best

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So I think it's intensely cosmopolitan.

We have this, you know, I think of Substack sometimes as like an index fund of culture, right?

There's this space for everyone.

And whoever you are, your tribe is kind of there.

And there's like the good version of your tribe.

you know, your subculture, your artistic community, your ideology, your people.

And so your thing is there, there's a home for you there, and there's this richness of 10,000 other tribes, other cultures, other literal geographies, other topics, other kinds of people.

It's this, you know, you can have this massive...

diversity, intellectual diversity, cultural, you know, subcultural diversity, and it can coexist in peace.

And people can have their, you know, experience these different parts of themselves and different parts of culture in a way that kind of fits together and doesn't get sort of homogenized into one great slurry.

There's sort of neighborhoods to Substack with different feels and different vibes.

I would say I aspire for it to be

sort of the intellectual and cultural capital of the internet.

I think one day it will be at a scale, I don't know if it's literally bigger than the biggest networks, but I think there's no reason it can't become into that echelon in terms of sort of raw population.

But I think long before that happens, and even today, there's sort of a sense of, you know, if you think about where the...

where the writers, where the musicians, where the artists, where the statesmen, where the poets, like all of these kind of like the intellectual and cultural elite can kind of like create the best versions of their ideas and thoughts.

Increasingly, that is happening on Substack.

Where you see something really good somewhere else on the internet, you kind of flip it over and it says, you know, made in Substack on the bottom.

And it becomes this place where it's like, if you want to go to like the real world