James Chandler

We should be having robust debate and conversation, not shouting at people.

uh moreover women entrepreneurs that are sitting on stage that sort of bothered to come across and share some stuff so i think it's totally fine to give it scrutiny but to sort of do that intimidation thing she talked in the interview about uh you know people saying that they want to kill her i mean come on no no totally agree totally totally totally agree of course i think you can think she's wrong you can 100 disagree with her but

I think it's a bit of a stretch to start to paint her as this kind of villain that's going to, you know, cause this whole downfall of human creativity because the person in the bedroom who's doing it for kicks because they like it can still do it.

She's not inventing a law, which means they can't.

But perhaps I'll make this final point, and I agree that we should be able to sort of robustly debate these things.

I remember when Spotify first came along, I was working in a media agency.

I mean, it was like magical, the idea that you could kind of have all this stuff.

They didn't have an AdMob, they didn't know what they were doing.

Radio people saw it as a huge threat.

They attacked it.

They said it wouldn't work.

Somehow we're in 2026 and those two things have found a way of sitting beside each other in kind of harmony, almost friends, sharing stages at things like the podcast show.

Publishers attacked Google when they were like, well, hang on, are you going to pay us for some of this content?

Black cab drivers attacked Uber when they came along.

But suddenly now there's a way of sort of figuring out what you can't pull the handbrake on is human behaviour.

And technology is going to be this sort of accelerant, this lubricant for new human behaviours.

Substack was the same.

I heard people saying, you know, Substack is the unprofessionalism of journalism.

journalists are leaving newspapers to write for Substack in their droves because that's where people are reading news now.

And you can go on and on and on with all these examples.