Chris Best
Co-Founder and CEO, Substack
Chris Best is co-founder and CEO of Substack, a platform for independent writers and creators who earn money via paid subscriptions since 2017. Substack puts publishers in charge and enables subscribers to support work they value. Previously, Best was the co-founder and chief technology officer of mobile messenger app Kik. From 2009 to 2017, he helped scale it and build a product with over 300 million users.
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2024 Festival
Guerrilla Creativity
In the last 30 years, conglomerates from Amazon to Netflix to Spotify have changed the way we interact with media, books, fashion and music. Creatives are struggling to mainta...
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