Substack has taken advantage of a new model for the internet, where subscriptions for content are increasingly becoming the norm. The website is the current king of paid newsletters, where writers ...

When they launched Substack, Best and his cofounders, Hamish McKenzie and Jairaj Sethi, drew comparisons with newspaper impresarios from 200 years ago, saying their innovation was of equal importance.

Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita sits down with Substack Founder & CEO, Chris Best, to discuss the platform’s business model, the media landscape, and three of Chris’ Substack subscriptions.

Best: Yeah, our goal with Substack is — as a writer, we can tell you we’ll do everything for you, except the hard part. We kind of want to make a platform that makes the rest of that stuff as ...