Chris Best
Founder and CEO, Substack
Chris Best is co-founder and CEO of Substack, a new-media app that connects people with the creators, ideas, and communities they care about most. Founded in 2017, Substack is building a new economic engine for culture by putting publishers in charge and enabling subscribers to support the work they deeply value.
Before Substack, Best was the co-founder and CTO of the mobile messenger app Kik. From 2009 to 2017, he helped scale Kik and built a product used by over 300 million users.
He graduated from the University of Waterloo and is based in San Francisco.
