What I'd like to see is is Substack paying the initial exclusive authors more beyond what the author's readers will pay in, as a kind of a Silicon Valley subsid

What I'd like to see is is Substack paying the initial exclusive authors more beyond what the author's readers will pay in, as a kind of a Silicon Valley subsidy of the early movers, ultimately to be able to take a bigger cut of the late movers with a lot of high prestige early people and network effects? Many of the journalists who have move have said it was a moral thing, but none of the big ones have disclosed any monetary incentives that might have tilted their hand. Do they get stock options as well, in a kind of law firm-partnereseque model?