{"id":1349,"date":"2021-05-02T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T09:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/02\/substack-how-the-game-changer-turned-poacher\/"},"modified":"2021-05-02T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T09:43:22","slug":"substack-how-the-game-changer-turned-poacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/02\/substack-how-the-game-changer-turned-poacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Substack: how the game-changer turned poacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

It started as a newsletter platform for unknown writers. Now it is becoming a media giant in its own right \u2013 with many of the problems it was supposed to avoid<\/p>\n

Isabelle Roughol was done with her day job at LinkedIn and was ready to start something of her own. She quit in early 2020 and launched Borderline<\/a>, a podcast and newsletter aimed at \u201cdefiant global citizens\u201d, and to help her build it she became an early user of a new online service: Substack.<\/p>\n

Substack<\/a> has marketed itself aggressively to people such as Roughol as a new type of tech company, one that will let writers build their own brands and communities. The company offers software to help people set up free or paid-for newsletters and promises the people creating them that they can write what they want and that they own their own mailing list and can take it with them if they leave.<\/p>\n

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\nIt started as a newsletter platform for unknown writers. Now it is becoming a media giant in its own right \u2013 with many of the problems it was supposed to avoid
\nIsabelle Roughol was done with her day job at LinkedIn and was ready to start something of her own. She quit in early 2020 and launched Borderline, a podcast and newsletter aimed at \u201cdefiant global citizens\u201d, and to help her build it she became an early user of a new online service: Substack.
\nSubstack has marketed itself aggressively to people such as Roughol as a new type of tech company, one that will let writers build their own brands and communities. The company offers software to help people set up free or paid-for newsletters and promises the people creating them that they can write what they want and that they own their own mailing list and can take it with them if they leave. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It started as a newsletter platform for unknown writers. Now it is becoming a media giant in its own right \u2013 with many of the problems it was supposed to avoid Isabelle Roughol was done with her day job at LinkedIn and was ready to start something of her own. She quit in early 2020 …<\/p>\n

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