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ChenStack

by Chris Chen @ Substack

ChenStack

About the Substack

Learn how consumer platforms really work, and how to use that to grow your product, land the job, or build your own thing. Written by someone with 7 years at Roblox, now leading Growth at Substack, with as little corporate varnish as I can manage.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Newsletter on marketplaces, growth, and how consumer platforms really work

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Paid-only playbooks: interview prep, PM tactics, and teardowns you can actually use
  • Chat AMAs โ€” bring your career, job-search, or product questions
  • The full archive, plus the ability to comment

Paid Subscription Plans

  • $10 a month
  • $100 a year

About Chris Chen @ Substack

Head of Growth at Substack. Formerly spent 7 years building growth at Roblox. Writing about platforms, creator ecosystems, and cold starts. Off the clock: cars, cooking, and two cats who are unimpressed by all of the above.

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