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Mediaite's Press Club
Hamish McKenzie
Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin sits down with Substack co-founder and chief writing officer Hamish McKenzie for a wide-ranging chat about the platform’s explosive growth, why he believes the traditional media model is broken, and the future of the industry. They also discuss Trump-era attacks on the press, Elon Musk's efforts to buy Substack -- and his subsequent crackdown on the platform -- and what the rise of independent media means for journalism. This episode was produced by Kathryn Wilkens.
2025-06-30
30 min
Anchor Change with Katie Harbath
Substack: A New Era of Publishing
In this conversation, Katie Harbath speaks with Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack, about the transformative role of the platform in the media landscape. They discuss how Substack is redefining trust in journalism, the impact of AI on content creation, and the importance of direct relationships between creators and their audiences. McKenzie shares insights on the evolution of media from centralized control to a more democratic model, the challenges of navigating political discourse, and the future of journalism in an increasingly complex digital world.Topics covered include: * The Media Disruption Landscape* Phases of Media...
2025-06-26
45 min
Media Confidential
Substack’s co-founder: Elon Musk ‘saw it as a declaration of war’
This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack.The platform, which now has over five million paid subscriptions, allows writers to self-publish their newsletters and make money directly from readers.Since launching in 2017, it has gained huge popularity with journalists and the public.Alan, Lionel and Hamish discuss what makes it fundamentally different to other social media sites, including the platform's surprising approach to content moderation. Hamish also shares how Elon Musk offered to buy Substack, and why he was turned down.
2025-06-19
43 min
The Audio Browser
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
Podcast: How I Built This with Guy Raz (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenziePub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSubstack was founded to create an escape vehicle for writers: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie imagined a world where writers didn’t have to rely on legacy publications or corporate advertisers, but could instead create a more direct and meaningful relationship with their audience. Despite early skepticism, Chris and Hamish were confident that many people would...
2025-06-04
1h 18
What Works
EP 497: Please Support My Work
If you subscribe to newsletters, listen to podcasts, or watch videos on YouTube, I've no doubt that you’ve been asked to support the person or people who created them. You can always support with a like or a share, of course. But generally, the support they’re looking for is financial.And for good reason, life is expensive. Jobs with good pay and decent benefit packages can be hard to find—especially in the culture industry.But I gotta tell you, I’ve always been a little irked by the w...
2025-05-29
27 min
TED Tech
How Substack is breaking down traditional media gatekeepers | Hamish McKenzie
“The whole Substack ecosystem is about more power because it’s based on those relationships between the publisher and their subscribers, or the video maker and their viewers,” says journalist and Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie. Following his talk at TED2025, McKenzie is in conversation with Sherrell Dorsey to discuss how the media landscape has changed, and how new platforms like Substack allows independent creators to challenge traditional broadcast media – and build trust with their following.To listen to McKenzie's TED2025 talk, click here: Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Castbox.Want to help shape TED’s shows goin...
2025-05-23
22 min
TED Talks Daily
This is what the future of media looks like | Hamish McKenzie
What if the polarizing mess of social media, clickbait headlines and addictive algorithms isn't a breakdown of media but a transition to something better? Substack cofounder Hamish McKenzie explores how independent creators are growing a new media "garden," where trust beats engagement metrics and audiences matter more than ads. Learn why clicking “subscribe” doesn’t just signal support; it gives you power.Want to help shape TED’s shows going forward? Fill out our survey! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-05-21
12 min
TED Talks Daily (HD video)
This is what the future of media looks like | Hamish McKenzie
What if the polarizing mess of social media, clickbait headlines and addictive algorithms isn't a breakdown of media but a transition to something better? Substack cofounder Hamish McKenzie explores how independent creators are growing a new media "garden," where trust beats engagement metrics and audiences matter more than ads. Learn why clicking “subscribe” doesn’t just signal support; it gives you power.
2025-05-21
10 min
TED Talks Daily (SD video)
This is what the future of media looks like | Hamish McKenzie
What if the polarizing mess of social media, clickbait headlines and addictive algorithms isn't a breakdown of media but a transition to something better? Substack cofounder Hamish McKenzie explores how independent creators are growing a new media "garden," where trust beats engagement metrics and audiences matter more than ads. Learn why clicking “subscribe” doesn’t just signal support; it gives you power.
2025-05-21
10 min
FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev
Can Substack Save News?
Subscribe to Hamish McKenzie and Dean Blundell by clicking on their names or sign up to Narativ.org and receive 25% off our annual subscription below.Traditional media is dying. Journalists are being laid off en masse. Trust in news is at historic lows, suppression has led to self-censorship. Are we witnessing the end of teh free press, or a rebirth. On tonight’s FiveStack, Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie laid out a vision that could save journalism itself—and it's already working."This Has Absolutely Saved My Life"Dean opened our exclusive interview with word...
2025-05-14
43 min
The Golden Age with Andrew Zucker
Is Substack the Future of Journalism?
Andrew chats with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie for a conversation on how Substack became one of the most consequential media platforms of the last decade. They discuss the origins of the company's subscription-first model, why owning your audience relationship is the future, and AI’s role in journalism. Hamish also opens up about what it was like working at Tesla under Elon Musk, how Substack responded when Musk tried to buy the company (and later tried to "nuke" it), and where the platform goes from here (hint: it’s not just a text-based platform).
2025-05-13
27 min
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
Substack was founded to create an escape vehicle for writers: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie imagined a world where writers didn’t have to rely on legacy publications or corporate advertisers, but could instead create a more direct and meaningful relationship with their audience. Despite early skepticism, Chris and Hamish were confident that many people would pay a few dollars a month to subscribe to their favorite newsletters, on subjects ranging from politics to sports to tech. Today, Substack has over 35 million active users, and while many of its offerings are free, a number of its content-creators make upwards of...
2025-05-12
1h 18
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The Substack Playbook: Inside The $650M Platform Rewriting Media, Trust, and Creator Economics | Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie (Co-Founders)
Podcast: The Generalist (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Substack Playbook: Inside The $650M Platform Rewriting Media, Trust, and Creator Economics | Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie (Co-Founders)Pub date: 2025-05-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn a world where attention is fragmented and algorithms rule the content landscape, Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie are taking a radically different approach with Substack. Rather than chasing clicks, Substack focuses on a simple yet powerful idea: creators should own their work and make money directly from the...
2025-05-09
1h 25
The Obsessive Diary
8Q LIVE with… Hamish McKenzie
Thank you Simon Haisell, Marty Neumeier, Dr. Amber Hull, Laura Washburn Hutton, Georgina Hamilton, and many others for tuning into my live video with Hamish McKenzie! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit eleanoranstruther.substack.com/subscribe
2025-04-02
51 min
The Good Fight
Hamish McKenzie on How Substack is Transforming Public Discourse
Hamish McKenzie is co-founder of Substack, a platform for online publications including Persuasion and writing like Yascha’s weekly column. He is a writer and former journalist based in San Francisco. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Hamish McKenzie discuss how Substack was formed, why its business model rewards different behaviors to traditional social media, and its steadfast commitment to free speech in the face of criticism. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. ...
2025-03-22
1h 03
The Good Fight
Hamish McKenzie on How Substack is Transforming Public Discourse
Hamish McKenzie is co-founder of Substack, a platform for online publications including Persuasion and writing like Yascha’s weekly column. He is a writer and former journalist based in San Francisco.In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Hamish McKenzie discuss how Substack was formed, why its business model rewards different behaviors to traditional social media, and its steadfast commitment to free speech in the face of criticism.Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight.If you have not yet signed up for our...
2025-03-22
1h 04
Wenbin Fang's Podcast Playlist
Inside the Independent Creator World, with Substack’s Hamish McKenzie – and Nayeema Raza
Podcast: Mixed Signals from Semafor Media (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Inside the Independent Creator World, with Substack’s Hamish McKenzie – and Nayeema RazaPub date: 2025-03-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week, we get an inside look at the independent creator model of media with a two-part conversation: First, Ben and Max interview Substack co-founder and chief writing officer, Hamish McKenzie, about the platform’s appeal for the resistance on the left, their move into video, and why they turned down Elon...
2025-03-10
38 min
Mixed Signals from Semafor Media
Inside the Independent Creator World, with Substack’s Hamish McKenzie – and Nayeema Raza
This week, we get an inside look at the independent creator model of media with a two-part conversation: First, Ben and Max interview Substack co-founder and chief writing officer, Hamish McKenzie, about the platform’s appeal for the resistance on the left, their move into video, and why they turned down Elon Musk’s offer to buy them a few years ago. Then, former Mixed Signals co-host and newly independent creator, Nayeema Raza, joins to talk about her foray into the new media landscape, what she’s learned about the space, and why her show, Smart Girl Dumb Questions, isn’t...
2025-03-07
38 min
The New Liberal Podcast
The Future of Substack ft. Hamish McKenzie
Substack is an increasingly important part of our cultural and media ecosystem. But is it actually any better than other forms of traditional media or social media? Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie joins the podcast to talk about content moderation, the economics of media, and much more as we dive into what exactly Substack is and where it's going. To get bonus episodes, support us at patreon.com/newliberalpodcast or https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member Got questions? Send us a note at mailbag@cnliberalism.org. Follow us at: https://twitter.com/CNLiberalism https://cnliberalism.org/ Join a loc...
2024-12-16
55 min
The Fold
An aggressive Substack moves to the heart of the creator economy
Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie grew up in small town South Island, but is now one of the most influential figures in US media (according to New York magazine). That’s because the platform, which started out with paid newsletters, is now starting to establish itself in social, audio and video. Hamish joins Duncan to discuss its latest moves, its relationship with legacy media and whether it can become a “new economic engine for culture” across all mediums without risking total enshittification. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-10-23
53 min
How Other Dads Dad with Hamish Blake
How Bret McKenzie Dads - A creative play masterclass from a master of creativity
HODD overseas adventure time! We headed to Wellington to chat with Kiwi comedy and music legend, and one half of Flight of the Conchords, Bret McKenzie and he gave us a masterclass on playing with our kids. Bret makes up silly stuff for a day job (he even won an Oscar for it!) and as a dad he’s focused his gift for absurdity and daftness into creating pro level games for his kids, and he gives us some of his best hits. They’re awesome! Seriously, you’re gonna want to write them down. Bret also has som...
2024-10-17
1h 11
The Substack Success Podcast
Get to Know Substack to Grow: An Interview with Hamish Mckenzie, Co-founder
Watch now—or listen in the app or on Spotify or Apple podcasts.Join the only all-in-one membership where you get subscribers, build a platform, and earn an income on Substack: www.writersatwork.net/subscribeI had the opportunity to sit down with Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack. I’m so happy to bring you our conversation. It was really illuminating and feels like the best thing I can give you as a Substack writer or creator.Many people don’t understand or know who the people behind Substack are. Hamish and all the pe...
2024-09-24
28 min
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
How Substack works to take (some) craziness out of America's elections
I spoke with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie yesterday, just before the Trump-Harris debate, about how Substack is doing its thing during the US elections. He talks in particular about how Substack’s focus on paid subscriptions rather than ads has made political debate on the platform calmer, simpler, deeper and more satisfying than in other social media, where the ad-driven need to maximise outrage, tribalism and performative pile-ons has contributed to a polarisation and toxicity in politics more generally. Hamish details Substack’s growth since the last US Presidential elections and the key role of trus...
2024-09-12
33 min
The Active Voice
Michael Easter wants you to take the stairs
Michael Easter is a bestselling author, journalist, and professor whose work explores how we can leverage modern science and evolutionary wisdom to perform better and live healthier. Through his Substack, Two Percent with Michael Easter, he offers readers insights to help them ignore the noise and focus on research-backed tips for a happier, healthier life. Michael’s reach is vast: his ideas have been adopted by professional athletes, astronauts, musicians, and Fortune 500 companies, and his work has been featured by outlets including Good Morning America, the New York Times, NPR, Fox News, MSNBC, and The Joe Rogan Exp...
2024-08-14
47 min
The Active Voice
Nate Silver on the edge
Chris here, Co-founder and CEO of Substack. I’m sharing a conversation with Nate Silver that I just published on my Substack.is a man of many talents. He’s been a baseball analyst, a blogger, a legendary election forecaster, and founder of 538. He’s worked in media at the Times, ABC, and ESPN. He’s a professional poker player, and a bestselling author. I was introduced to his work through his book The Signal and the Noise, and he has a new book coming out in August called On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything. He has a...
2024-07-19
59 min
Diaspora.nz
S2 | E1 — Hamish McKenzie (Co-founder and Chief Writing Officer at Substack), on the Future of Media, Navigating the Culture Wars, and Empowering Creators.
Hamish McKenzie is the co-founder and Chief Writing Officer at Substack.Substack is building a “new economic engine for culture” — enabling writers, podcasters, and now video creators to publish and monetise their content directly through subscriptions. Today, newsletter creators on Substack have over 35 million active subscriptions, including 3 million+ to paid content. The Company has gone from strength to strength, reaching near “verb” status synonymous with online newsletters— and most recently raised capital at a $650M valuation.Before Substack, Hamish was Lead Writer at Tesla — going on to author “Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolu...
2024-07-04
38 min
DayOne.FM
S2 | E1 — Hamish McKenzie (Co-founder and Chief Writing Officer at Substack), on the Future of Media, Navigating the Culture Wars, and Empowering Creators.
Hamish McKenzie is the co-founder and Chief Writing Officer at Substack.Substack is building a “new economic engine for culture” — enabling writers, podcasters, and now video creators to publish and monetise their content directly through subscriptions. Today, newsletter creators on Substack have over 35 million active subscriptions, including 3 million+ to paid content. The Company has gone from strength to strength, reaching near “verb” status synonymous with online newsletters— and most recently raised capital at a $650M valuation.Before Substack, Hamish was Lead Writer at Tesla — going on to author “Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolu...
2024-07-04
38 min
Australian True Crime
Shortcut: The Work of WA Police's Sex Crimes Division
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Dr. Hamish Mckenzie is the Detective Superintendent of the Western Australia Sex Crimes Division. That means he's the boss.As you're about to hear, Sex Crimes is a very challenging area of policing, and Western Australia is the largest single policing jurisdiction in the world.Policing, like everything else, is done differently in WA. But according to Hamish McKenzie, child sexual assault is the one area...
2024-02-18
14 min
Australian True Crime
The Work of WA Police's Sex Crimes Division
Dr. Hamish Mckenzie is the Detective Superintendent of the Western Australia Sex Crimes Division. That means he's the boss.As you're about to hear, Sex Crimes is a very challenging area of policing, and Western Australia is the largest single policing jurisdiction in the world.Policing, like everything else, is done differently in WA. But according to Hamish McKenzie, child sexual assault is the one area of law enforcement where egos really do take a backseat to results. He joins us on Australian True Crime, which serving officers rarely do...
2024-02-18
44 min
Bray and Ethan
#107 - Hamish McKenzie - Perth Scorchers Leg Spinner
The 'Chief' Hamish McKenzie joins us at the desk on the eve of the BBL finals to discuss his rise from Subi-Floreat to debuting for both WA and the Scorchers this summer ! Follow Hamish: https://www.instagram.com/ham.mckenzie1/Follow us on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/brayandethanThanks to our partners use code BRAYÐAN20SkinBRO: https://www.skinbro.com/Hat Locker: https://www.hatlocker.com/CHEATR Clothing: https://cheatr.com.au/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-01-19
36 min
POSTHOC Salons LIVE w/ Susan MacTavish Best - Intimate Conversations on Topics of the Zeitgeist
Substack Salon
We hosted a salon with Substack in LA to celebrate their community of writers and creators, and to meet the company's co-founder Hamish McKenzie, whose interview you're about to hear. We discussed the origins of the company, Hamish's own background as a writer and what about the platform fosters such a unique relationship between creators and subscribers.
2023-12-04
23 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: E. Jean Carroll, Mary Trump and Jen Taub are bringing serialization into the mainstream
Today’s episode is guest-hosted by Sarah Fay, creative writing professor at Northwestern University, former interviewer at The Paris Review, devoted serializer, and lover of all things Substack. Her Substack Writers at Work helps creative writers use Substack to bolster their careers, including how to serialize their writing. She’s currently serializing her new memoir Cured on Substack through 2023.—Sophia Efthimiatou, Head of Writer Relations**You may recognize the names of today’s guests: Mary Trump, E. Jean Carroll, and Jennifer Taub. Their new venture is a groundbreaking Substack: Backstory Serial. The content may surp...
2023-07-27
41 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Taylor Lorenz still believes in the internet
Taylor Lorenz, a tech culture reporter for the Washington Post, has been both observer and participant in an internet culture that has been emerging since the early 2010s, a period of history that has seen the rise of massive social media platforms, the decay of traditional media, and the increasing power of online influencers. That culture can be delightful and enriching, and it can be savage and soul-destroying. Of course, anyone who spends much time on Twitter knows that Taylor herself has had ample experience with both sides of that. She is a lightning rod in the o...
2023-07-13
1h 08
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Richard Hanania is seeking ‘enlightened centrism’
Even among politics and media junkies, few people had heard the name Richard Hanania before 2020. But then, as the pandemic intensified online tribalism, the political scientist emerged with a provocative analysis that carried the headline “Why Is Everything Liberal?” The piece, which explores why almost every major institution in the U.S. leans left, did the rounds on Twitter, announcing Richard’s arrival as a distinctive new voice in American politics discourse. Soon enough, he followed it up with a series of other pithily headlined posts that demonstrated a streak of contrarianism that variously managed to win fans and challe...
2023-06-23
44 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Nadia Bolz-Weber is preaching to break your heart
At a dinner party Substack hosted in San Francisco last week, I found myself sitting next to Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and former publisher of the Whole Earth Review. We were talking about the capital of the world. It no longer felt that New York was it, I was telling him, though it had not been replaced by another physical city either. Rather, the world now had only one, digital, capital. If you made it there, you’d make it anywhere.He agreed, with one amendment. “Silicon Valley is the place least resi...
2023-06-08
32 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Suleika Jaouad and Yung Pueblo are creating to live
Both Suleika Jaouad and Diego Perez, who writes as Yung Pueblo, arrived at writing through adversity. Writing became a way of life when each was faced with death, a healing mechanism that became a craft.When they met for the first time in person at our headquarters in San Francisco, they greeted each other with the enthusiasm of old friends reuniting. They fell into conversation with natural intimacy and comfort before we had a chance to press the “record” button and continued talking for another hour past the taping’s end. They were familiar with each other’s writin...
2023-05-25
41 min
Dead Cat
Substack's Index Fund of Culture (with Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie)
I caught up with Substack co-founders Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie at Substack’s office in San Francisco last week. They’re fresh off raising a community fundraising round and launching their social network Notes. I wrote in March about my decision to invest $5,000 in Substack’s fundraising round, even though the company revealed that it had negative revenue in 2021:I’m already compromised when it comes to Substack. They’ve made my job possible. And while I already have plenty of financial exposure to Substack’s performance just by dint of running my business on Substack’...
2023-05-17
51 min
The Cerebral Valley Podcast
Substack's Index Fund of Culture (with Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie)
I caught up with Substack co-founders Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie at Substack’s office in San Francisco last week. They’re fresh off raising a community fundraising round and launching their social network Notes. I wrote in March about my decision to invest $5,000 in Substack’s fundraising round, even though the company revealed that it had negative revenue in 2021:I’m already compromised when it comes to Substack. They’ve made my job possible. And while I already have plenty of financial exposure to Substack’s performance just by dint of running my business on Substack’...
2023-05-17
51 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Ted Gioia and Mike Solana are fighting from the fringes
At first glance, Mike Solana and Ted Gioia might not seem to have much in common. Mike, the publisher of the newsletter Pirate Wires, is very much a child of the internet, a strong proponent of the tech industry and scientific progress, with a career in venture capital (working in marketing) after a brief stint in book publishing. Ted, who writes The Honest Broker and has been a guest on The Active Voice before, is one of America’s greatest music critics, founder of the Jazz Studies program at Stanford University, and the author of 12 books. What they share is...
2023-05-11
49 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Robert Reich is pressing the reveal key for society
I met Robert Reich in his overstuffed corner office on U.C. Berkeley’s campus, housed in what looked to me like a midcentury villa that could double as a restaurant that sells speciality bratwurst. I was shown into Reich’s office by Heather Lofthouse, his collaborator and media partner, who pointed out a mahogany armchair by the window, just past some boxes overflowing with books. It was the chair he sat in while serving in Bill Clinton’s cabinet as Secretary of Labor in the 1990s. Naturally, I asked him to sit on it to pose for a photo...
2023-04-27
58 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Ethan Strauss is jumping off a high diving board
When he’s about to hit publish on a take that he knows will catch some heat, Ethan Strauss feels like he is about to step off a high diving board. He’s scared, but he knows he will do it anyway. “That, to me, feels good,” he says. “The entirety of the process and that particular catharsis feels good.” Ethan writes about the intersection of sport and culture—especially when it comes to the NBA—on House of Strauss, where he also hosts a cult-favorite podcast. He made his name in sports media through covering the Golde...
2023-04-13
1h 23
On with Kara Swisher
Inside the Elon-Substack Drama with Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie
Last week, Elon kicked off a feud with both Substack and his very own former Twitter Files ingénue (and Substack star), Matt Taibbi. Kara and Nayeema break down the battle of the bros before turning to an interview with those at the center of the storm: Substack co-founders Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie.The two address questions about Substack Notes (which Elon dubbed, and they deny, is a “Twitter clone”), the challenging business model of newsletters and their stance on free expression. Somehow, they manage to avoid uttering the name “Elon.” Kara doesn’t shy away though. ...
2023-04-13
56 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Alison Roman is bored of Instagram
Alison Roman is enjoying being an “elder millennial” and not feeling the pressure of being on TikTok or even doing all that much on Instagram, the platform that helped make her reputation (although she did meet her boyfriend when he slid into her DMs). “I do furniture shopping on Instagram,” she says, describing what she calls her fraught relationship with the app. “That’s what I use it for.”The queen of viral recipes is no longer as known for #TheCookies or #TheStew as she is for simply being a food and media personality. She has just published her...
2023-03-30
1h 05
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Patti Smith loves being alive
I met Patti Smith at Electric Lady Studios, the studio in New York’s Greenwich Village opened by Jimi Hendrix a few weeks before he died, and she immediately walked me down to the basement level to show me the original murals—psychedelic, space-themed—that Hendrix had commissioned for the walls. She had first seen them in 1970, at the studio’s opening, when, before she was a well-known artist and the “godmother of punk rock,” she bumped into Hendrix on the staircase. “He stopped and talked to me and told me that he was also shy,” she says. “We talked about his v...
2023-03-16
1h 06
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Emily Oster is okay with taking heat from the mob
When Emily Oster wrote an article for The Atlantic to suggest an amnesty in the pandemic wars, she received a shockingly sharp rebuke from those who weren’t ready to forgive. On the left, there were people who felt that the unvaccinated jeopardized untold lives; on the right, there were people still furious about the way they were treated for not going along with the lockdowns. But by that time, social media cancellations were a familiar ritual for Emily, who had already upset some souls with articles about school closures (she was against them) and the Covid risks faced by...
2023-03-02
50 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Etgar Keret is thinking weird thoughts
Etgar Keret’s parents, both of whom survived the Holocaust, gave him the gift of imagination, a garden he has been watering with stories since he was a child. His father crouched in a hole in the ground for more than 600 days to escape the Nazis in Belarus, getting through the time by telling himself stories of a parallel universe in which everything was the same except for one detail (like that there were still Nazis who chased Jews, but when they caught them they would give them sweets). Etgar’s mother crafted bedtime stories with as much care as i...
2023-02-17
54 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Heather Havrilesky finds life romantic, even when it’s terrible
Heather Havrilesky’s writing career has spanned the life of the internet, starting with the satirical site Suck.com, moving through Salon, The Awl, and New York Magazine, and ending up on Substack, where she publishes two much-loved newsletters: Ask Polly and Ask Molly. Heather has mastered the art of reinvention, bending with the winds of the web, as news sites have variously chased SEO, blogging, Facebook traffic, and the rest. She settled on an approach that has worked for her: doubling down on what she likes. That attitude ultimately took her into advice giving, where she has...
2023-02-09
58 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Paul Kingsnorth is happiest on the margins
In the 1990s, the English writer Paul Kingsnorth was a radical environmental activist, taking part in road blockades and protesting at WTO summits. Today he calls himself a “recovering environmentalist” and doesn’t believe people can do all that much to halt the march of the markets and technology. For instance, he thinks of climate change as a predicament to be endured, not a problem to be solved. His focus instead is on making sense of this revolutionary time we are living through and finding wisdom in old stories, especially religious ones, to help us live well through civilizational collap...
2023-01-27
1h 00
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Jessica DeFino is revealing the real face of the beauty industry (and it’s not pretty)
Jessica DeFino’s face literally had to peel off before she gave up on beauty products and turned a critical eye on the beauty industry. As a journalist covering the industry, she had been inundated with free beauty products, which she enthusiastically accepted. Then she developed dermatitis and had a bad reaction to the steroids she was prescribed to treat it.“My skin started peeling off of my face in chunks,” she says. “For months, my skin was just oozing red. I couldn’t put makeup on. I couldn’t use products. I could barely splash water on my face w...
2023-01-19
55 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Ted Gioia takes the long view
Ted Gioia, the great music and cultural critic, has never lived in New York and it has cost him. He knows he is completely out of touch. “I didn’t make the relationships, I didn’t have editors opening doors for me,” he says. “Things were harder for me at every step along the way because I wasn’t at those cocktail parties.” But not being in New York has its upsides. Perhaps most importantly: it has helped Ted retain the mindset of an independent outsider, less vulnerable to the groupthink that can overtake the modern media. From his perch...
2023-01-12
51 min
The Glenn Show
Hamish McKenzie – Speaking Out in an Age of Partisan Rancor
0:00 Why Glenn does The Glenn Show13:02 Glenn: “If I was going to vote for Trump, I wouldn’t tell you”19:21 “The cat is out of the bag” on election denial25:45 Modeling epistemic modesty31:12 Why is race such an important issue for Glenn?39:13 The Old Glenn and the New Glenn45:46 Confronting the past50:44 Putting “the funk” on the story of your lifeRecorded October 27, 2022Links and ReadingsHamish’s podcast, The Active VoiceEmily Oster’s SubstackRobert Wright’s...
2022-12-23
57 min
Grow A Small Business Podcast
QFF Travelled the globe specializing as a consultant. Hamish McKenzie: co-founder of Mckenzie Pitch Partners, a sought-after consultant now helping small-medium business owners develop winning pitches. (Hamish McKenzie)
In this week’s QFF episode, Michael interviews Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of McKenzie Pitch Partners. He’s based in Toronto, Canada, however, Hamish’s a proud Aussie from Tasmania. He studied accounting at a university, then went into corporate banking. Gathering experience and wisdom, paving the way to what he is now, a sought-after pitch consultant. As Hamish defines it, pitching is the effort to win a piece of business. It is the final nail in the coffin to entice investors. This is why it’s critical to understand and to be efficient with what you’re pitching; H...
2022-12-22
22 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Rayne Fisher-Quann wants your attention
I can’t imagine what it must be like to grow up on social media, especially as someone who says things in public—to try to figure out who you are as an adult while living under the panoptic gaze of TikTok and Instagram, or to have one’s intellectual identity shaped by the performative shoutysphere of Twitter. I’m old enough to have missed all that, but Rayne Fisher-Quann, a 21-year-old Canadian writer who has built a large presence on social media and a cult-favorite Substack called Internet Princess, has forged her life and career in the attention economy...
2022-12-16
55 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Joshi Herrmann knows the difference between bullshit and media gold
You’ll have to forgive my self-indulgence in this conversation, because I’ve gone deep with Joshi Herrmann—not a celebrity name or a celebrated author, I hope he won’t be offended by me saying—about a bunch of things that scratch my particular interests in media: local news, New York media-startup scandals circa 2016, subscriptions versus ads, venture capital, and canceled Netflix comedians. Joshi is the founder of a fledgling media empire anchored by The Mill, a local news publication covering the city of Manchester, England, that he launched in 2020. The Mill, which is based entirely on Substack...
2022-12-08
51 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Doomberg is willing to make some big calls
Doomberg, the top-earning finance publication on Substack, is led by a cartoon chicken that previously worked in heavy industry. Okay, so it wasn’t the chicken that worked in heavy industry—but its anonymous creators, with a background in hard sciences and energy, did. They chose the green chicken as their publication’s logo because they want it to be instantly recognizable on Twitter, which they use as their main marketing channel (it is, after all, the bird app). The plucky avian also fits with the cheeky “defensive pessimism” of Doomberg’s ethos, as captured in its tagline: “Chicken Little Gets a...
2022-12-02
43 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Chris Hedges stands with whatever side is being crushed
Chris Hedges is surprisingly cheery for someone who has, by his own admission, “a dark view of human nature.” When we met for this conversation at Substack’s office in San Francisco, he was full of smiles and good humor—at least during the times we weren’t discussing death and destruction. He had just come from the gym, a habit that borders on a fixation for him, since he works out as a way to deal with the trauma from years of covering war in some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones: the former Yugoslavia, El Salvador, an...
2022-11-24
43 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Cheryl Strayed might be whispering your name into a candle
Did you know that a votive candle is one of those short, squat candles that people use for prayer or, like, to put on their outside stairs when they’re hosting a fancy party? I did not. But “votive” is the word I blurted out when Cheryl Strayed was trying to describe the type of tall candle she lit as a way to psychically summon Reese Witherspoon. A decade ago, Strayed was waiting to hear whether or not the actor was interested in taking the lead role in the movie adaptation of Wild, her best-selling 2012 memoir. So she lit the bi...
2022-11-17
57 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Glenn Loury doesn’t want to be told what to think
Among many notable things, Glenn Loury has been the first African American economics professor to get tenure at Harvard, an author and essayist, a firebrand on race issues from both the left and the right, and, in one dark chapter of his life, a cocaine addict who led a secret life on the streets.Now in his 70s and a professor at Brown University, Loury leads a semi-retired life, publishing video conversations with fellow academics and intellectuals for an audience of tens of thousands on his Substack, an endeavor that includes a long-running dialogue with the Columbia U...
2022-11-10
53 min
Smart Venture Podcast
#121 Substack(valued $600M+)’s Co-founder, Hamish McKenzie
Hamish McKenzie is a Co-founder of Substack, a platform that makes it simple to start a paid newsletter. Substack is currently valued at $650 million, and has raised over $80 million dollars from a16z, YC among other top funds. Prior to founding Substack, Hamish is a journalist and former lead writer for Tesla, and a one-time reporter for tech blog PandoDaily. He is also the author of Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil. You can learn more about: How to build a successful media tech company How to s...
2022-11-09
48 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Samantha Irby will make you rethink your toilet
I was hoping to meet Samantha Irby in person, since podcast interviews are more fun that way and she is a fun person, but she is obstinately committed to Kalamazoo, the small Michigan city plonked equidistant from three Great Lakes. This podcast has not yet reached the point where I can justify the expense of a Courtyard Marriott in Kalamazoo for one interview. So, Zoom it was. Kalamazoo looms so large in Samantha’s bio that it has become part of her brand. She doesn’t care for the literary cool clubs of New York and Los Angel...
2022-11-04
1h 02
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: Jessica Reed Kraus goes where gossip reporters fear to tread
No one covered the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard trial in quite the way that Jessica Reed Kraus did on Instagram and Substack, taking her readers into the courtroom, behind the scenes, and into some of the most salacious details of the actors’ personal lives. Near the start of the pandemic, the relatively unknown writer and influencer had pivoted from writing about home renovations and her four children in Orange County to something that she felt could bring people together in more civil conversations: celebrity gossip. Nearly two years on, Jessica has accumulated more than 1 million Instagram followers and more than...
2022-10-27
35 min
The Active Voice
The Active Voice: George Saunders thinks you should watch your mind
A couple of days after I interviewed George Saunders for the first episode of this podcast, I caught up on some of his recent posts on Story Club, his writing-focused Substack. In “A Lost Speech, Found,” he wrote about rediscovering the script for a graduation speech he had given many years ago. The speech would earn him a reputation as “The Kindness Guy.” “If the question ‘How should I live’ can be answered: ‘Live so as to minimize your regrets,’” he had said in that speech, “then I have to tell you: What you actually regret, when you’re older, is very si...
2022-10-20
1h 06
The Active Voice
Introducing The Active Voice, a new podcast about writing and the internet
Welcome to The Active Voice, a new podcast with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie about how great writers reckon with the only thing in the last 17,000 years to challenge the technological supremacy of writing: the internet. Through these conversations, we’ll explore how the world’s most important stories are told in a time when social media has come to dominate our minds and attention. Today, we start with George Saunders, one of America’s greatest living writers (and author of the wonderful Substack Story Club).This podcast is called The Active Voice because we enjoy the dou...
2022-10-20
01 min
The Pomp Podcast
#1097 Hamish McKenzie On How This Tech Startup Is Disrupting Mainstream Media
Hamish McKenzie is the Co-Founder Of Substack. In this conversation, we discuss the downfall of legacy media, the rise of independent media, where money is being made in this new industry, supporting free speech, the creator "middle class", and the Substack subscription model. ======================= Arculus is the next generation crypto & NFT cold storage wallet that combines one of the world’s strongest security protocols with the easiest to use form factor and app. Arculus requires 3-Factor Authentication to ensure only you have access to your digital assets – something you know – a PIN, something you have – the Arculus...
2022-09-28
1h 27
London Writers' Salon
#027: Hamish McKenzie — The Future of Newsletters, Writing About Elon Musk & How to Make It on Substack
In this episode we go behind the scenes with writer and Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie (@hamishmckenzie) to explore his journey from journalism to working at Tesla, writing a book about Elon Musk, and his motivation for creating Substack, a newsletter platform that allows independent writers to publish directly to their audience and if they choose to, monetize their writing. We discuss what commonalities he sees with the more successful writers on the platform, why he's excited about new writers that will emerge in the coming years and his take on the future of publishing and newsletters.*
2022-09-27
40 min
The Detour Podcast
We recap the mixed TTT and Hamish McKenzie live
A day of drama for the Dutch at #Wollongong2022 as Annemiek van Vleuten crashed not long after the start and a mechanical for Mollema. We recap all the results from the day and Australian Hamish McKenzie joins us live after his silver medal in the junior TT.
2022-09-21
30 min
The Fifth Column
369 w/ Lara Bazelon and Hamish McKenzie (Live in collapsing San Francisco!)
A few weeks ago, with Matt Welch bleeding out of his ears and supposedly forbidden from flying, Kmele and Moynihan hopped a plane to a post-apocalyptic hellscape called “San Francisco” to kibizt with their new benevolent overlords at Substack. Unlike the boring prigs at Patreon (whose “Trust and Safety” commissars never even returned our calls), Substack rather generously hosted the Fifth crew for drinks, drinks, some more drinks, and a live show at company HQ. In Matt’s stead, the lads called up FOTF (Friend of the Fifth - ed.) Lara “Che” Bazelon, a local law professor and communist...
2022-08-20
1h 31
30,000 Days Podcast by Sarb Johal
30,000 Days with Hamish McKenzie
Hi friends, In this conversation, I talk with Hamish about the experiences have shaped his journey through life so far, and the societal problems he is trying to solve through developing Substack. Hamish shares how connection with a special tribe when he moved to study at Dunedin was an important part of his journey, as well as his sink-or-swim move to Hong Kong, and then joining Tesla as Lead Writer. Hamish is the author of Insane Mode: How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil. He is a...
2022-06-13
00 min
30,000 Days Podcast by Sarb Johal
30,000 Days with Hamish McKenzie
Hi friends, In this conversation, I talk with Hamish about the experiences have shaped his journey through life so far, and the societal problems he is trying to solve through developing Substack. Hamish shares how connection with a special tribe when he moved to study at Dunedin was an important part of his journey, as well as his sink-or-swim move to Hong Kong, and then joining Tesla as Lead Writer. Hamish is the author of Insane Mode: How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil. He is a...
2022-06-13
00 min
News Items Podcast with John Ellis
How Substack Breaks Through the Attention Economy
John interviews Hamish McKenzie, one of the co-founders of Substack. Since its start in 2017, the company has managed to upend the relationship between journalists and news outlets. A good number of prominent writers, including Anne Helen Peterson, Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Sullivan, Matt Yglesias — and John Ellis himself — have started newsletters on Substack, and some of them make a good deal more money than they did when they were employed at traditional outlets.Of course, the company hasn’t been without some controversy. John and Hamish talk about that, as well as the company’s newly announced effort t...
2021-08-10
23 min
Mumbrellacast
Hamish McKenzie explains why Substack won't be enabling advertising
New Zealand-hailing Hamish McKenzie co-founded Substack with the goal of helping journalists get paid for writing newsletters. McKenzie worked as a journalist in New Zealand, Hong Kong and the US, and is now based in LA. McKenzie - who has also worked for Tesla, and is the author of ‘Insane Mode’ about the arrival of the battery revolution - joins Mumbrella’s Tim Burrowes to chat about his departure from journalism and eventually creating Substack.Substack is only 4 years old, but is already being talked about in the same way that journalists were talking about...
2021-07-27
33 min
Mumbrellacast
Hamish McKenzie explains why Substack won't be enabling advertising
New Zealand-hailing Hamish McKenzie co-founded Substack with the goal of helping journalists get paid for writing newsletters. McKenzie worked as a journalist in New Zealand, Hong Kong and the US, and is now based in LA. McKenzie - who has also worked for Tesla, and is the author of ‘Insane Mode’ about the arrival of the battery revolution - joins Mumbrella’s Tim Burrowes to chat about his departure from journalism and eventually creating Substack.Substack is only 4 years old, but is already being talked about in the same way that journalists were talking about...
2021-07-27
33 min
Channels with Peter Kafka
Substack’s next target: Local news
Substack is known for recruiting high profile writers to leave the big name publications and start their own newsletter businesses. Now it wants to recruit writers you haven’t heard of, and get them to cover local news. Cofounders Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie talk to Recode’s Peter Kafka about their plans — as well as criticism and controversy their startup has kicked up in the last year.Featuring: Chris Best (@cjgbest) Co-Founder of SubstackHamish McKenzie (@hamishmckenzie) Co-Founder of SubstackHost: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at RecodeMore...
2021-04-15
42 min
Harlem Say
EP83 建立個人品牌工具,會員電子報一定要認識正悄悄紅上天的Substack
介紹一個快速竄紅的工具,也是個人品牌建立的好工具,會員電子報+社群+平台+訂閱制,由三位共同創辦人過去都在通訊軟體新創 Kik 中服務。二位在媒體 Chris Best 及的 Hamish McKenzie ,以及負責程式的 Jairaj Sethi。內容創作者不再被平台、演算法勒索外,同時和大多社群、新聞訂閱平台的如何不同,就來聽哈林說~#訂閱制 #品牌 #會員 #電子報 #Substack #哈林說 #HarlemSay有問題想問,可以在這個連結留言,我就容易在後台上看到,我將在頻道中回應你,謝謝。https://open.firstory.me/story/ckmc72icsffoq09159trk95ks?m=comment 很歡迎大家的支持請我喝一杯的( 威士忌/葡萄酒/咖啡), 下次播出時,我會跟大家說誰請我們喝哪一杯了….. ^^歡迎抖內 ( $$$ ) https://pay.firstory.me/user/harlemsay Powered by Firstory Hosting
2021-03-16
26 min
The Fold
Substack's Hamish McKenzie on a new era of publishing
In this episode of The Spinoff’s media podcast The Fold, Duncan Greive is joined by Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack.For years, the media landscape has been filled with publications making money by filling up ad space. While an effective mode of funding for the already underfunded sector, Hamish McKenzie saw an alternative. Alongside co-founders Chris Best and Jairaj Sethi, McKenzie developed Substack, an online platform for writers to send newsletters directly to paying subscribers.In the three years since its inception, the platform has become host to so...
2021-02-14
51 min
The Media Show
Diana, Panorama and a BBC apology
Princess Diana's brother has called for an inquiry into the circumstances of his sister's historic Panorama interview. Charles Spencer alleges BBC reporter Martin Bashir used "sheer dishonesty" to secure the interview. The corporation said its investigation was "hampered at the moment" by the fact that Bashir was "seriously unwell" with complications from Covid-19. Amol Rajan discusses the allegations with BBC Royal correspondent, Jonny Dymond.Also in the programme, why Substack has become one of the hottest brands in media, and a libel case loss for Johnny Depp.Guests: Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack, Vivian Schiller...
2020-11-04
28 min
My Innovation Week
Wie können Plattform-Modelle in der Medienindustrie aussehen? (Kurs: Build New Business Models, Folge 5)
Mit Substack hat Hamish McKenzie die zur Zeit angesagteste Journalismus-Plattform mitgegründet. Auch etablierte Medienunternehmen können viel von Substack lernen - deshalb gewährt Hamish uns hier einen Einblick in seine Plattform-Strategie!
2020-10-30
29 min
Digitaler Unternehmermut
#57 Carlos Pierre - Founder and CEO BADI - English Language Podcast
Carlos gets unreasonably passionate about people, things or ideas. Particularly passionate about reshaping Real Estate Finding a place to live in cities like New York, Barcelona or Berlin – nearly impossible. Even more impossible if your budget is not infinite. Our guest Carlos Pierre had the idea to change this. He was unsatisfied with searching for flats in classifieds and saw a lack of the social aspect of housing in this method. The initial idea was a platform similar to “Tinder” but his start up has come a long way since then. “badi” now helps people finding affordable housing and flat owner...
2020-05-18
57 min
Tesla Owners Online Podcast
75 - Kyle's Pin to drive
Kyle Connor from Out of Spec Motoring joins us to talk about his deep dive into Model Y. Don't miss this one! _______________________________________________ SHOW LINKS: Subscribe to Out of Spec Motoring YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIzTVZNIAMY9JhzKc-rriQ Special thanks to Brian from 1iTesla for letting Kyle use his new Model Y in several videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/AbsoluteSavannahs InsideEVS Model Y Performance vs Model 3: https://insideevs.com/news/406265/video-tesla-model3-race-y/ GetJeda Model Y hub now available to order: https://getjeda.com/product/jeda-usb-hub-model-y/ ______________________________________________ Book Recommendations: Lars: Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick https://amzn.to/36...
2020-03-25
1h 23
Tesla Owners Online Podcast
74 - Raj Gets in the Machine
Raj joins us again to talk about this recent experience with the new Tesla Model Y. We cover some Tesla news as well _______________________________________________ SHOW LINKS: Subscribe to Raj's YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcpAX1PqQWcR44D19kVX7Q/videos Raj's Model Y review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A02SV63bwok Raj's Model 3 is for sale: https://teslaownersonline.com/threads/2018-lr-rwd-pearl-white-w-fsd-19-rainbow-roof-calipers-ppf-tint-and-more.15854/ Tesla will officially shut down its Fremont factory and Gigafactory New York starting on March 24 for a short time: https://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla-operational-update Fremont could make ventilators upon request: https://www...
2020-03-18
1h 24
Tesla Owners Online Podcast
73 - Pee-formance Model 3
In this episode we talk about our record-setting coast-to-coast Canadian road trip we called the Lightning Run which was completed in only 73 hours and 27 minutes. Special guest Kyle Connor from Out of Spec Motoring joins us in the discussion. _______________________________________________ SHOW LINKS: Out of Spec Motoring Website: https://www.outofspecmotoring.com Subscribe to their YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIzTVZNIAMY9JhzKc-rriQ ______________________________________________ Book Recommendations: Lars: Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick https://amzn.to/36ofnIN Eric: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry https://amzn.to/2tA1yd3 Ian: Insane Mode by Hamish McKenzie https://amzn.to/3aF7VMT ...
2020-03-11
1h 38
Tesla Owners Online Podcast
72 - Lightning Run
Talking about Tesla news and Ian and Trevor are something something really nutty _______________________________________________ SHOW LINKS: Model 3 standard and standard range plus can now activate rear heated seats for $300 US https://twitter.com/Model3Owners/status/1228659861304598528?s=20 Tesla changes supercharging policy on salvage cars https://www.scribd.com/document/447459079/TN-18-00-001-Unsupported-Vehicle-Policy-R1 Model S and X get EPS range bumps https://www.tesla.com/models/design#battery Tesla includes third-party charging stations in car navigation https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-includes-third-party-charging-stations-in-car-navigation Model Y reportedly has USB ports for rear connections https://twitter.com/patelnet/status/1228827627416440833?s=20 Trip labelling could...
2020-02-18
1h 44
Tesla Owners Online Podcast
71 - Sofa King Tesla
Ian Pavelko, Nate McComb, Brad Garcia, Rafael Santoni and Eric Camacho join up in Florida for a group podcast. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Book Recommendations: Lars: Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick https://amzn.to/36ofnIN Eric: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry https://amzn.to/2tA1yd3 Ian: Insane Mode by Hamish McKenzie https://amzn.to/3aF7VMT Trevor: And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi https://amzn.to/2NRVdAE _______________________________________________ Order GetJeda Wireless charging pad or USB HUB: getjeda.com/ref/5/ _______________________________________________ Buying a Model S, X or performance Model 3? Use our owner referral code to get 1000 miles (1500kms) of free Supercharging ...
2020-02-06
1h 26
Become a Writer Today
How Newsletters Make Money for Writers with Hamish McKenzie of Substack
The internet is a noisy place for writers. If you want to build a relationship with readers and earn more from your creative work, consider starting a newsletter. Substack is an example of a popular service that you can try.I recently interviewed co-founder and COO Hamish McKenzie. In this interview, he explains: Why newsletters are a great way of earning more money as w writer Why your first newsletter starts with an ideal reader How to build a relationship with readers and fans What it takes to grow a newsletter that people will pay for
2020-01-29
25 min
Tesla Owners Online Podcast
70 - European Your Opinion
Special Guest Lars https://twitter.com/TeslaParaTodos joins us on this episode. His YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6NrgPij8jXaVtXiQ6j0vw _______________________________________________ SHOW LINKS Tesla Issues statement on the unindented acceleration petition brought about by a Tesl short seller https://www.tesla.com/en_CA/blog/no-unintended-acceleration-tesla-vehicles Tesla reaches settlement with Michigan https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-21/tesla-reaches-settlement-with-michigan-over-ban-blocking-sales Could Model Y be coming as soon as next month? (BUNK) https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/es38rh/model_y_deliveries_confirmed_for_next_month/ New Games are possibly coming! https://twitter.com...
2020-01-23
1h 32
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast
Episode 19-26 Is Elon Musk More Important Than Steve Jobs?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New Zealand journalist, Hamish McKenzie about his book: “Insane Mode – How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil”. Then, testing for Alzheimer’s Disease long before any outward symptoms appear. Carlo Medici, CEO of Alzeca describes their efforts, and our chief correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about the ability to control technology with voice and how it will significantly impact medicine.
2019-07-05
59 min
TechNation Radio Podcast
Episode 19-27 Is Elon Musk More Important Than Steve Jobs?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New Zealand journalist, Hamish McKenzie about his book: “Insane Mode – How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil”. Then, testing for Alzheimer’s Disease long before any outward symptoms appear. Carlo Medici, CEO of Alzeca describes their efforts, and our chief correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about the ability to control technology with voice and how it will significantly impact medicine.
2019-07-05
59 min
The Business of Content with Simon Owens
This indie newsletter generated over 10,000 paying subscribers
With social platforms like Facebook throttling distribution for news and the online ad market collapsing, more and more writers are turning to paid newsletters as a way to make a living. In a November 2018 episode of this podcast, I interviewed Hamish McKenzie, the co-founder of Substack, a platform that made it easy for writers to launch newsletters and charge subscribers to receive exclusive issues of those newsletters. At the time, McKenzie said that Substack writers had converted a combined 25,000 readers into paying subscribers. Flash forward to today, and that number is up to 40,000. In fact, BuzzFeed recently...
2019-05-15
41 min
LifeDoneDifferent.ly
Hamish McKenzie - How to recycle yourself out of the system
It would be fair to say Hamish is not a conventional man. Check out The Bizarre Houseboats of Britain to see what I mean. He thinks and acts differently and the effect is certainly different. In this conversation he tells us: - Why he got rid of the TV at 18 years old- Why he rescued a shapely old Portsmouth Ferry from the riverbed- How his floating home became a reflection of his warped self - What a squircle is- The freedom that comes from a frugal lifestyle- The s...
2019-04-29
1h 19
Climate One
Insane Mode: Tesla’s Wild Ride
Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maverick CEO Elon Musk was slapped with SEC charges over some rather misleading tweets. That move cost him and the company millions in fines and forced Musk to step down as chairman. Other skidmarks for Tesla include production delays, shareholder skittishness and some well-publicized workplace complaints. Host Greg Dalton invites three journalists and Tesla-watchers to assess the health of Tesla, its overall impact on the auto industry and its future as a leader in the green economy. ...
2019-03-29
49 min
PhotowalksTV Podcast with Jefferson Graham
Santa Barbara #Photowalk & a bonus
Directly above, my conversation with Hamish McKenzie, the COO of Substack, this wonderful newsletter platform. As you know, I discovered Substack through an article in the NYTimes this week, signed up, checked it out, and have been testing it this week. Jeff being Jeff, I naturally invited Hamish from Substack the next morning to join me for a #Talking Tech extended interview, asking all the questions I’m sure you have all had about how to use this platform, and why it got started in the first place. Then below, that Santa Barbara #Photowalk I’ve...
2019-03-24
08 min
PhotowalksTV Podcast with Jefferson Graham
Santa Barbara #Photowalk & a bonus
Directly above, my conversation with Hamish McKenzie, the COO of Substack, this wonderful newsletter platform. As you know, I discovered Substack through an article in the NYTimes this week, signed up, checked it out, and have been testing it this week. Jeff being Jeff, I naturally invited Hamish from Substack the next morning to join me for a #Talking Tech extended interview, asking all the questions I’m sure you have all had about how to use this platform, and why it got started in the first place. Then below, that Sa...
2019-03-24
08 min
The Tim Stodz Podcast
Why You Need to Create a Substack Account w/ Hamish McKenzie - EP 67
Hamish McKenzie is the cofounder of substack, a subscription based email newsletter service that is revolutionizing the way we publish content. Go to https://www.substack.com/ to create an account and go to http://hamishmckenzie.com/ to learn about Hamish's work with journalism, read his book and learn about his work with Tesla.
2019-02-21
56 min
BioTech Nation Radio Podcast
Episode 19-02 Is Elon Musk More Important Than Steve Jobs?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New Zealand journalist, Hamish McKenzie about his book: “Insane Mode – How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil”. Then on this week’s Tech Nation Health, testing for Alzheimer’s Disease long before any outward symptoms appear. Carlo Medici, CEO of Alzeca describes their efforts, and our chief correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about the ability to control technology with voice and how it will significantly impact medicine.
2019-01-09
59 min
TechNation Radio Podcast
Episode 19-02 Is Elon Musk More Important Than Steve Jobs?
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New Zealand journalist, Hamish McKenzie about his book: “Insane Mode – How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil”. Then on this week’s Tech Nation Health, testing for Alzheimer’s Disease long before any outward symptoms appear. Carlo Medici, CEO of Alzeca describes their efforts, and our chief correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about the ability to control technology with voice and how it will significantly impact medicine.
2019-01-09
59 min
Story In A Bottle Podcast
Hamish McKenzie
From a young age in New Zealand, Hamish McKenzie always had a passion for writing and he knew he was pretty good at it! He pursued an English degree and eventually earned a graduate degree in journalism. Hamish went on to be a reporter and wrote for PandoDaily, the Guardian and the Toronto Star. His freelance writing eventually lead him to he role as head writer for the innovative car company, Tesla -- making Elon Musk his boss. Hamish used his experience in the the day to day world of Tesla to write the book “Insane Mode: How Elon Musk...
2018-12-21
1h 05
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Computers & Technology
Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil by Hamish Mckenzie
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344541 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil Author: Hamish Mckenzie Narrator: Hamish Mckenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 27, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: A USA Today New and Noteworthy Title “You’ll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?”—Elon Musk, TED interview Hamish McKenzie tells how a Silicon Valley start-up's wild dream came true. Tesla is a car company that stood up a...
2018-11-27
10 min
This Is the Author
S3 E142: Richard Sheridan, Ralph De La Rosa, and Hamish McKenzie
In this episode, meet CEO of Menlo Innovations, Richard Sheridan—although you may want to refer to him as Chief Joy Officer—therapist and meditation teacher, Ralph De La Rosa, and journalist Hamish McKenzie. From stories of joyful leadership to why we need a more joyful meditation practice, you’ll be inspired by the fascinating lessons and research these authors have to share. Chief Joy Officer by Richard Sheridan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557539/chief-joy-officer/ The Monkey Is the Messenger by Ralph De La Rosa: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/576131/the-monkey-is-the-messenger/ Insane Mode by Hamish McKenzie: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/5...
2018-11-13
14 min
When pitching, it’s the stuff you AREN’T doing that makes all the difference
Very excited to welcome Hamish McKenzie to the show! Hamish is the Co-founder of McKenzie Pitch Partners, and is the author of a new book called Pitch: What You’re NOT Doing Makes All the Difference. The Key Takeaways/topics from today’s conversation: The most common mistakes most pitch teams make. What are the things we are NOT doing? Why are we still letting them commoditize us? We discuss the game-changing Pitch SSP Process [Strategy, Story, Presentation]. Why do pitch teams turn in passive question answerers? The...
2015-08-12
27 min
Longform
Episode 149: Ross Andersen
Ross Andersen is the deputy editor of Aeon Magazine. “One of the things that’s been really refreshing in dealing with scientists—as opposed to say politicians or most business people—is that scientists are wonderfully candid, they’ll talk shit on their colleagues. They’re just firing on all cylinders all the time because they traffic in ideas, and that’s what’s important to them.” Thanks to TinyLetter and AlarmGrid for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @andersen Andersen on Longform [2:00] Aeon on Longorm [5:00] "Zapped" (Mary H.K. Choi • Aeon • Sept 2013) [5:00] "Awaiting Renewal" (Heather Havrilesky • Aeon• July 2013) [5:00] "Brigid Hains on the Launch of Aeo...
2015-07-08
49 min