rant · moment 7 of 33
Walking Out on the Substack Founders Mid-Dinner
from #285 - Tim Dillon VS Substack | The Tim Dillon Show · #285
3 min
Tim and Giannis re-enact the dinner where Substack execs kept insisting email lists were their big advantage, and Tim describes standing up and leaving mid-sentence.
- Tim pitches deleting his YouTube and Patreon during dinner, claiming he wants to do it for the culture and the cause.
- Substack founders reassure him they don't want to own him, then pivot to explaining their email feature as a key advantage.
- Tim acknowledges respecting the Substack model for journalists like Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald, but accuses the founders of just replicating what Patreon already does.
- The founders repeatedly emphasize their email capability as if it's a revolutionary feature, defending it against his skepticism.
- The meeting ends up much shorter than the Substack founders expected.
- Tim stands up and walks out mid-sentence during the dinner without explanation.
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