Chris Best

Chris Best possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply technical background in advanced software engineering, complex digital product design, and massive-scale mobile application architecture. Having successfully graduated from the University of Waterloo and operating as the fiercely capable CTO who aggressively scaled Kik to millions of global users, this intensely structural foundation provided the exact engineering mastery required to successfully pioneer the incredibly massive Substack publishing platform.

Chris Best is a fiercely visionary Canadian technology entrepreneur, highly strategic digital architect, and the profoundly influential CEO and co-founder fundamentally responsible for architecting the massively dominant Substack publishing empire. Operating as an incredibly talented software engineer who previously co-founded the massive messaging platform Kik, Best aggressively recognized the massive, catastrophic degradation of digital media caused by highly toxic, ad-driven algorithmic social networks. In 2017, he relentlessly partnered with Hamish McKenzie and Jairaj Sethi to completely launch Substack. By fiercely engineering a highly elegant, massively scalable subscription newsletter platform that directly monetized writers, his absolutely rigorous strategic leadership completely revolutionized the global creator economy. His massive corporate execution permanently established Substack as the absolute bedrock of modern independent journalism.