It's crazy how many @TechCrunch reporters have a Substack.
This is NOT good for Techcrunch. To me, this is a sign of unrest, poor leadership, and a very bad strategy.
Not good for TC.
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Meh. Bad analogy coming from a scarcity mindset. Allowing reporters to grow their own audiences by writing (different, less restricted) content on a private Substack just leads to happier, wealthier reporters and - indirectly - a larger audience for TC.
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Ride sharing is far more zero sum than consuming content on the internet.
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How so? You can use Lyft, Uber, rent a car or more. You can pay money to how many tech pubs? Prolly the same amount (a handful). Same with an advertiser. They have many options, can only choose a couple.
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Engineers setting up a competing ride-sharing company only has negative consequences for the company. Reporters having a private Substack has several positive consequences and no concrete negative consequences.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Reporters are increasingly expected to build their own brand (while also obeying employer expectations, spoken or not). The chances that one of them will build, say, a podcast so successful that it eclipses or even compete with established pubs like TC is frankly ludicrous. I
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And if you're going to tweet that this is "Not good" you should give equal air time to the fact that their salaries are also "not good."
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