Suggest & bet on questions that I should ask Chris Best during our fireside chat today! You can submit questions even if you're not attending; the talk will be recorded for later. I won't ask questions directly by highest %, but I will consider those more heavily.

Other questions I'm considering (you can modify or submit these if you like them!):

• How are you feeling about AI? You wrote an open-source version of Devin (the software engineer) — how do you think about the future of software?

  • How is Substack making use of the future of AI?

  • How do Substack writers feel about AI?

• It doesn’t seem like Substack has ever put on a major conference — was this a thing you’ve considered?

• Substack has been moving into Twitter’s turf with threads and DMs; do you see Substack supplanting Twitter?

• And Sam Altman infamously tweeted “you can grind to help secure our collective future or you can write substacks about why we are going fail.” How do you feel about Substack getting called out like this?

  • And more broadly, the dichotomy of “hacker” vs “writer” — you yourself seem like more of a hacker, but building a product for writers.

• How was your experience crowdfunding? (This is a path we’ve also considered for Manifold)