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With Beehiiv, Tyler Denk Is Riding the Newsletter Wave

Recently, Denk has been taking the fight to Substack. In a December 10 newsletter post titled “Death by a Thousand Substacks,” Denk argued that Substack is more interested in building out its own brand and ecosystem than helping its less-popular newsletters find an audience. He wrote that Substack is deploying “the classic social network playbook” that platforms like Facebook and Twitter have used to hurt publishers in the past: “Gradually eroding the ownership, identity, and independence of writers on the platform.” With Beehiiv, Denk wants to restore that sense of ownership.