Substack is a subscription publishing platform for writers, podcasters, and video creators. Writers keep 90% of revenue minus card fees, and the company says its business model only earns when creators do.

Mission as stated by the company: "Build a new economic engine for culture, empowering writers, creators, and publishers to own their work, own their audience, and earn directly from their ideas."

Co-founded by Chris Best (CEO), Jairaj Sethi (CTO), and Hamish McKenzie (CWO). HQ in San Francisco with a New York office, and a team of 100+ across the US, Canada, and the UK. The platform reports 5 million+ paid subscriptions, with 30%+ of those coming from within Substack's own network.

Featured reads

Tech Job Market Report: October 2026

Snapshot of the October 2026 tech job market on Remoet: where the open roles are, who's hiring most, what techs pay, and which benefits show up most often.

What vLLM Is, and Why It Keeps Showing Up in Job Posts

vLLM is in the stack of 43 hiring tech companies on Remoet, against 8 that name an open-weight model directly. Companies do not write down the weights. They write down the server.