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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.

Adam Tooze, Crisis Historian, Has Some Bad News for Us - The Atlantic

Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves, for instance. One Tooze post examined how accumulating those reserves helped Vladimir Putin turn the country into a “strategic petrostate” bold enough to invade Ukraine and capable of countering Western powers. About 150,000 people, including some in the German chancellor’s office, read the essay. “I thought, Wow, this is worthwhile,” Tooze told me. “For somebody who comes out of an academic publishing background, where you’re lucky if 1,000 people read what you write, the numbers tick up so fast.” On Substack, his output also proved financially rewarding: “For anyone on a regular, white-collar, academic-type salary, it’s transformative.”