INFO: Inside/VC is leaving Substack
Why beehiiv will be the new home for this newsletter...
You might have noticed that Inside/VC has been a lot quieter here over the last six weeks. Here is why.
Inside/VC is leaving Substack!
Not because the newsletter is stopping or long form writing is going away. But because the platform no longer fits where this publication is headed.
From now on beehiiv is the home for publishing and distribution.
→ https://insidevc.beehiiv.com/ ←
→ https://insidevc.beehiiv.com/ ←
→ https://insidevc.beehiiv.com/ ←
Substack has an incredible community and strong momentum. But over time the subscriber numbers here have started to become misleading.
Between Notes and recommendations it has become very easy to grow a list quickly. At the same time the quality of many of those subscribers has dropped. Many people sign up with secondary or throwaway email addresses mainly because of the volume of promotional email on the platform.
That hurts open rates click rates and the real relationship with readers. Because of this a large number of inactive subscribers was also removed.
After almost exactly one year it became clear that it was time to move on.
Going forward LinkedIn will be used for audience growth and beehiiv for email distribution and analytics. This setup is more sustainable and better aligned with how newsletters will work going forward.
Every active reader here is automatically being added to the new beehiiv and will continue to receive the same content as before and more.
Thank you for reading
Jannis
Bold move Jannis, and it makes a lot of sense given how polluted Substack’s “subscriber count” has become with low-intent emails and drive-by recs.
Moving a deal-flow / VC insights newsletter off a big platform is always a bit risky, though, because now you’re also the ops team for:
- reliable delivery
- analytics that actually reflect investor attention
- long-form archives that LPs, founders, and partners can reference later
If you ever want a setup where:
- you keep drafting in Google Docs
- posts auto-convert into a clean, SEO’d archive under your own domain
- you retain canonical control while still piping email via Beehiiv
…that’s exactly the workflow tools like Blogsitefy are built around, so you don’t add extra technical overhead while you scale the brand.
Curious: what’s the one metric you’ll be watching most closely after the move... open-rate quality, click depth from LinkedIn, or how many investors actually return to past issues?