It shows great confidence in their ability to find paying readers that aside from Substack’s VC money they also borrowed $4 million to pay themselves. They don’t need an office, printing and distribution, or a sales team and Substack provides and maintains all the IT infrastructure (maybe one admin assistant / bookkeeper).
Wish the microblogger had archived the old text for verification but I can believe that Piper believes that marrying a femme and having many children while working a full-time, high-prestige job counts as a traditional gender role.
It shows great confidence in their ability to find paying readers that aside from Substack’s VC money they also borrowed $4 million to pay themselves. They don’t need an office, printing and distribution, or a sales team and Substack provides and maintains all the IT infrastructure (maybe one admin assistant / bookkeeper).
And most of the contributors have other jobs.
Wish the microblogger had archived the old text for verification but I can believe that Piper believes that marrying a femme and having many children while working a full-time, high-prestige job counts as a traditional gender role.