Emily Sundberg on building Feed Me to 60K subscribers and how independent media is reshaping journalism

I want to see billboards in LA. We will ask her, but first we have to sing her a song. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Emily. We're hitting the size gone for you. We actually should. It was yesterday. It was yesterday, but it was July 1st. You just didn't come on the show yesterday.

So, welcome. I would have come on yesterday if you asked. We should have. We should have. We could have had a cake. We could have had a cake. What did you do for your birthday? Um, I had a few meetings. I went to the YMCA. It was empty, which was nice. Mhm. And then my husband took me to dinner. Oh, that's nice.

Uh YMCA underrated. You're you're a lot of people. It's nice. I This New York weather, it's one of the only places blasting that air conditioning. So Oh, interesting. What What does the gym tier list look like in New York today? Uh you know, Equinox had a moment. Lifetimes making moves. Lifetimes making moves.

I So I kind of do a high low thing. I live in Park Slope, so the the YMCA makes a lot of sense for me. But I'm also a member at a club called Kasa Chipriani with Okay. Very small members club. Yep. It's fun. The high low that the high low. John John's in favor of that, too.

We just started going to a new gym, but John is like actively wants to be kicked out so he can go back to Gold which I'm like, "No, we're not. We can't do this. " There aren't um there don't seem to be as many YMCA's on the West Coast. No, no, not not that many. Lots of 24-hour fitness, lots of gold gyms.

I mean, Gold's Gym, it's the it's the staple of Venice. It's where Arnold Schwarzenegger works out. You know, RFK's out there. It's a good crew. John John thought Equinox was like a $75 a month gym while we were actively going there for a brief period. And I just loved how out of touch you are.

You were It felt like premium, you know, but not ultra premium. It's not It's not the besties all in tequila level. Yeah. The location matters a lot. Yeah. Um, what what else is new in your world? Yeah. Give us a give us a a hand update. People were I assume in the city right now. Well, yeah.

I I got out here this morning. I don't want to brag. I recently inherited a car from my late grandfather. It's a 2006 Camry. Okay. Very nice. Iconic era of really great vintage. Very reliable. Yeah. Awesome. So, I drove out here today. Uh, it's crowded. It's really crowded.

I'm hoping that this sort of um level of crowds is due to the holiday weekend, but it might be a mistake that I I rented a house out here, but we'll see. Um what else is new since two weeks ago is the So, so the Hamptons broadly, people a month ago were saying that rentals were down massively year-over-year.

Does it feel that way? Yeah, I I don't know how much of that was because of weather or or or people's finances. I think some people were less motivated to like make the move on booking a house because we had really bad weather the past few months in New York.

It was really rainy and gross and it was sort of a late start to summer. Um but I'm sure people's financial situation. There was also a trade war that's still ongoing. And if your portfolio is down tremendously, you're not exactly saying, "Yeah, I'd love to spend, you know, you know, 100K for two weeks. " Yeah.

I had a friend who was dating a Wall Street uh like hedge fund guy and uh she was like, "Yeah, it's going so great. Like it's amazing. " And then like a couple weeks later she's like, "Yeah, he's just like really weird. Like I don't think it's going to work out.

" And I was like showing her the stock market chart and being like, "So his emotions perfectly map to the 10% sell-off that we just saw. You're telling me that this guy his entire his entire personality is derived from the state of the market. " The state of the market.

And she was like, "Oh, this makes so much more sense now. " Okay. Yeah. I'm sure there's a lot of women who went through similar situations as her. I'm sure I'm sure the kangaroo market's not good for the dating scene. Um, is uh is that is that crazy white party going on? That's a Hampton's thing.

Is that a Is that a July 4th thing or is that canled? I thought Michael Rubin was like pulling back from that because it was like maybe too flashy. Is there an update thing? Yeah, I I I We'll see. Is that supposed to be Fourth of July? I think that's She's like wearing She's like white party.

Like, what are you talking about? Can't comment. No, not anyone. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. I think that might have been a factor in in in pulling back from that. But but but I always see like everyone's like spying the watches, spying like you know what cars people showed up in all this. Yeah, there's a lot of paparazzi.

There's a lot of Tik Tockers so see everything happening in real time. Interesting. Nobody can really like leave with another man's wife anymore. Like there's so much uh coverage of these events now. It's really takes away the mystique. The mystique.

Somebody might What's up with uh what's up this with this place drugstore? You were covering it. Let's try arrow. Yeah, this is awful. Um, Bloomberg broke news yesterday that there's a new movie smoothie popup chain from uh like a Jay-Z invested celebrity chef. Okay.

and he's these these like very Instagrammable smoothies which obviously Aerowan started but now there's a lot of places that are kind of hopping on the bandwagon of treating like smoothies as a billboard like brands can collab with them and then whoever's serving these smoothies is like making extra money from an advertising business which is crazy like I think to get an arrowan smoothie for your brand it's like 200k for a month or something we have to do this yeah we we we say that's That's worth every penny for the TBPN Feed Me Arowan smoothie.

You're telling me you're not going to net out? We're No, you should do a drink at like the US Open or something like Don't do the smoothie. Don't do the smoothie. It's played out. Yeah, it's play It's played out. It's played out. Okay.

Didn't have a collab with like Volkswagen or something or some really funny like car company they did. Yeah, you're right. They did do a car com. I think they they also do like beauty brands like sunscreen and stuff like it's not Yeah. Chevrolet. They did a Chevrolet drink collab.

And what the worst part is that I wouldn't have had a problem if they did the ZR1, like the really crazy Chevy sports car, but they did the 2025 Equinox EV. So, you're driving this movie.

Uh, according to the manufacturer, the collaboration between uh it combines Chevy's commitment to emissionfree vehicles and Arowan's mission to promote sustainability as a merchant of organic foods and wellness products.

The drink called the electric juice consists of cho choo choo choo I don't even know this which is the most proteinrich plant source and blue spirulina the super food food that matches the Equinox's EV's blue color the drinks ingredients are designed to energize and recharge consumers according I think the winner the winner the winner here was the ad agency that got paid half a million dollars to set this up for sure I don't know I feel like I feel like everyone's getting the Haley Bieber smoothie I I'm about to rock the Equinox EV smoothie.

I think it has a certain badge value. All like they're like 70 grams of sugar. It's like four Cokes. I'm long I'm long sugar though. Four Cokes is a lot. That is a lot. But I'm going long I'm going long sugar from here. I did I did an experiment. Um my my wife was very afraid of this.

It's the worst experiment you ever I continue. Yeah. But anyways, people people are very afraid of sugar. I to prove a point I drank a soda every single day. Yeah, I drank a Coke every single day for 6 months straight. I know you're young and you work out every day and like there's like a million ways to offset that.

It wouldn't be good. No, a lot of a lot of people think No, I agree. It it is over. People think like a single Coca-Cola is terrible. Like Yeah, of course. Of course. Everything's in the the dose is the poison with all of this stuff. You drink a full gall.

What about So, so this week on our side, we've been covering the AI talent wars. how um basically AI researchers are being comped almost like pro aletes and sort of like you know these sort of nine nine figure massive offers.

The reason I bring it up is because you obviously cover a lot of the uh media landscape and we had Derek Thompson on who left Atlantic. I imagine that he's already like run rating well well beyond I I don't know um what what his metrics are but I would imagine he's already catching on Substack. He's catching up to me.

Oh, really? Yeah. It's a problem. Go subscribe to subscribe to Feed Me right now and uh help help win the race.

But um but I was curious if you It feels like if if uh legacy media companies, I won't call anyone out, want to want real attention, not just the sort of attention that comes from their logo to some degree and the prestige, but like actually quality content.

Uh, at some point they'll have to like kind of re-evaluate their comp structures. I think The Atlantic was like 300K was being reported as like the kind of range.

And when you can go on Substack as a superstar writer and immediately be making somewhere in the seven figure range at some point or another, it just becomes really difficult.

I see uh traditional media companies more likely to start doing like handshakes with Substack writers than starting to completely restructure how they're paying their staff.

I don't mean so like syndication basically syndication or like I mean I've talked to so many editors from traditional magazines and papers who are like trying to figure out how they can work with Feed Me. Is it like a co-publishing thing? Is it like creating a podcast together?

And it's it's been very interesting to experience firsthand like talk to these people because I don't I don't really need that. Like Derek doesn't need the Atlantic because the people who are reading him are reading him for him, not the whole surrounding. Yeah.

I mean, just to set the table for the folks who might be listening, when Emily comes on the show, we pay her $100,000 for her appearance. So, just just to kind of set the bar uh just And it ramps up over time. Yeah. Yeah. It obviously ramps up.

Um but uh but yes I am interested in like the dynamic of like you can still go and publish in in traditional media. Um is that just like freelance? What is the difference between what do you mean like when I write for GQ? Yeah, exactly.

Are you a col reason that I'm doing that besides that I adore my editor there and I I think that it's just like it's a it's working like a different part of my brain. Like I don't it's like a gift to get to be edited by GQ's editors. That's cool. Yeah.

Do you uh so are are you a columnist over there or are you a contributor? Like how does what's the actual shape? Do you get assigned things? Like I've had reporters reach out to me and be like I was assigned a story on nicotine so I need to talk to you as an expert or whatever.

So, with GQ specifically, my editor Dan um when I wrote the Zen story and when I wrote a story about members clubs last year, both were because I I had written about both of those topics in my newsletter and he was like, I think it would be interesting for you to expand upon this in like a larger feature in a in a print issue.

Um, and that's how that's happened. I I don't really but like I'm at the point now where if I have an idea of a great story that I want to write like it doesn't make sense for me to pitch it to the times or to New York magazine because it I can get it done faster on Feed Me, I can outsource an editor if I need that.

I can outsource legal services if I need that. And it it's better for me to get to be like breaking those sorts of stories, you know? Um I just have like a good thing going in GQ. It's kind of fun. That's cool. I want to bounce an idea off you.

Um there is this narrative that um like when you go direct, when you're on Substack, like it has a different texture, a different uh different vibe, different maybe more objective, maybe more pro tech or pro, you know, creator or pro whatever the topic is being covered.

Uh I think that it's less about the personalities or the views of the people and maybe just more about the economics that essentially when you're in legacy media you basically have a salary cap and when you're outside of it you have no salary cap and that actually defines the economic terms shape this the type of content more than than anything else.

Do you think that's reasonable? Do you disagree? How how would you wrestle with that? Can you can you keep like expanding on that? I I want it. So So uh I think that there's there's something where if you if you're working at a at a particular uh outlet and there's some sort of like salary cap.

It's like imagine if there were two NBA teams playing against each other and one had a salary cap of $300,000 per player and the other had no salary cap. Like who would you expect to produce better basketball?

Who would you expect to produce better content when you have when you have one that where a person can make 10 million or Joe Rogan can make a hundred million? Like you're just going to attract the absolute top because that's where the extremely ambitious. Yeah.

and they're extremely incentivized to just work extra hard because if they work if they work a little bit harder and they compound a little bit more and get that extra guest and write that extra piece, it could not it doesn't mean oh here you got a $5,000 Christmas bonus.

It means Spotify signed you to a hundred million contract and it's the difference between like when LeBron James shows up at midnight to shoot more three free free throws like that could be the difference between like a $50 million contract and $100 million contract.

So going that extra thing produces like better content. Yeah. It's really interesting to see so many traditional journalists, you know, give Substack a shot and like they just plateau. But I'm like I'm an animal. Like when my eyes are open, I'm working. Like this letter goes out every day. It's I'm marketing it.

I'm editing it. I'm pitching stories. But I've always had a really high tolerance for being told no. like when I was getting paid 60k at a job and when I'm making like 10 times that now, right?

Like so I think that Substack and these sorts of platforms, even what you guys are doing, also attract personality types that are had less boundaries and rules in the ways that they work.

Um, and then when people who who don't think like that think that they can find the same success, like they get disappointed or confused or think that it's rigged or something like that. um when really they're just getting confused.

I mean going going above and beyond for a job where the cap might be like what did that New York Magazine story say about the Atlantic? 300K. That's what they were paying their journalists. Like Okay. So like you're you're going to go as hard as you can to make 300K and get those benefits and whatever.

But the other thing that I'll say like is you have to be willing to not have insurance. you have to be willing to, you know, have have months where you're you're not having like the support of a team. Um, and it's just like a very specific type of personality.

Um, but I think you're totally on to something like I think I'm playing a different game than my peers who are working in an office at a at a magazine or a newspaper. Yeah. Yeah.

also that the insurance thing is real, but it's also a problem that is very quickly overcome and you can quit your job and say, "I'm going to pay out of pocket for insurance for two years, and if this doesn't work out, then I'll I'll get a roll back.

" I'm curious uh you you were commenting on Vogue partnering with Neutri Neutri Grain Bars and uh I'm curious if you think um as people are so used to influencer creatorled advertising like if if you were to partner with a brand and people are like wait like what like why did she partner like that makes no sense like that's clearly a cash grab that that feels like it seems like legacy media brands could get away with that kind of thing for a long time.

Even though we're saying, you know, why is Neutrorain needs better marketing? Because the first thing I think about can shut down. Yeah. I I I I always think about the the the I I think that Nature Valley meme where it's like effing crumbs everywhere. I don't know if you've seen that one, but that's not neutral grain.

And so my biggest association with Fig Newton. They got to work on that. Yeah. It's like it's is it a fake Newton or is it the Crom one? Like I just know it's not good. So they got to step it up.

But yeah, the Vogue audience I mean what do you think that there was ever a pitch where it's like okay we're going to go after the moms that read uh Vogue and get them to buy it for their kids. And so it's some sort of like bank shot strategy for me.

What stopped me in my tracks was it wasn't a banner ad in a newsletter. It wasn't like one of those it wasn't like somebody writing about uh their wellness routine sponsored by Neutri Neutri. It was a produced video of a stylist sort of like gallivanting through the streets of New York City.

And I really like this girl, Michelle. Yeah. When I saw her post it and I saw that it was between Vogue and Neutrorain, like there was two I who was in the room, who sold this ad and how much was it for and how much did Michelle get and how much did Vogue get?

Like it was very confusing to me because there were there were other ways that that could have been executed and made a lot more sense. And they probably didn't think that somebody would screenshot it and start that conversation, but unfortunately the conversation was started. Yes. Yeah. There's so many media reporters.

If I didn't pick up on it, somebody else would have. Um, but I think that Nast overall right now is on life support. Like we had this conversation when Vanity Fair was looking for their next editor. Um, unfortunately like it's happening immediately right after that with this new this new Vogue editor.

Um, it's a lot of it's a lot of pressure for like I don't know what like a few more years of running this magazine. It just doesn't really seem like how um it doesn't Vogue doesn't seem I don't know what I would look to Vogue for right now. Yeah. Yeah.

It kind of goes back to that idea of like the the independent media creator versus the legacy media creator. Like we just released an ad for Wander that they we said they asked us. They barely even asked us to make it and we just wrote it, shot it, directed it, like edited it. We just did everything.

We sent them the final thing and they were like, "Yeah, cool. " Um, and so I think the brand there was like a second that they asked for a tweak, but yeah, they were like, "Uh, actually our font is this one instead of that one and that was it.

" And so and so like that is the type of like you know entrepreneurial energy that I'm sure the particular partner that worked on that actually starred in the commercial would bring to a partnership and select and and coordinate with a brand that was actually aligned.

But there were just like too many spreadsheet monkeys in the office that day and so it just wound up being like I was like why wouldn't you just hand these to the hungover girls at bar stool and like have them talk about like how this is like the like the hangover snack like that I think would have moved the needle more totally I don't know but are are the when I when I think of logical Vogue partnerships I think of like luxury brands are luxury brands pulling back from that type of partnership like have you seen anything there like what are what are the innovative things that you're seeing from like the really top tier uh brands out there?

Have you seen anything cool? You know what I saw today? Do you know those David bars like the metallic? Yeah, we had him on the show. I love them. Um I saw that Balenciaga at their show this week. Somebody posted a photo of like Balenciaga bars like the same sort of metallic Okay. metallic label. I took a photo of it.

I'll send it to you guys after this. That's very cool. Um, so I mean like is that going to move their their hoodies? I don't know. But like that's those sort of fun weird moments are more exciting to me. Um, if we're talking about nutrition bars. Yeah.

I mean it certainly shows that like Balenciaga is still on the you know hip or just aware because like Peter Rahal he's kind of you know known in consumer package goods world and a little bit in tech and some people know the story of R of RXar and then David Bar with the revenue ramp like the business is doing well but it's still like a complete insider industry story like the average person on the street doesn't know that so Valencia like is kind of signaling a little bit to that like hey with the new business community and I'm sure that that took them like a couple thousand bucks like put together like you know it's not difficult.

Um as far as what what luxury brands are doing I think it's a lot of events now like they're putting a lot of money into events like I was just at a Chanel event.

They do a lot of programming with Tribeca Film Festival which is cool because everybody's in the city anyway so they they throw events and make sure that people show up to that. Um I think that a lot of my social calendar in New York right now is dominated by brand events.

It just seems to be what's moving the needle because people go and they get photos of themselves and they post it and it's like the brand is the background. So you end up being like New York just feels like a billboard every every time you go out now because everything is a brand event.

It's like dominating how people are organizing their social calendars. I don't go to events. I don't go outside. I just stream. Um what makes for a good brand event? Like is this just a happy hour? Is that what we're talking about? Is there dancing? A bad brand.

It's actually interesting that the thing I'll say, we were talking about SVB earlier. They they they would throw dinners that like like there's an entire founder dinner industrial complex that are just like financial or you know companies that that throw these dinners.

The funny thing is that within tech the companies historically failed to make them social moments. So it' be like it'll say the name it'll say SVB on the menu. people aren't like taking a picture of the menu as much as they're just like taking pictures.

So, I think what the luxury brands do well is you're saying, "Hey, we're going to invite 200 people into this space photographer and you're not going to be able if you post any photos at all, we're going to be getting exposure. We're going to have a moment. " Yeah.

Um I I threw a brand dinner or a feed me dinner with my friend Paul from the infatuation last year and Andrew Ross Orcin was sitting next to me and I gave him a feed me keychain. That was my brand moment. Um, that's a great moment. So, that's another thing like at those dinners are awful. Yeah.

How are brands being creative? Are we seeing like ice sculptures or step-in repeats? Like like how how can brands stand out with one of those? Like the worst possible brand event is a DJ and free drinks. Like just people standing in front of like a 22-year-old DJ with like free drinks.

And then um more innovative things are like I think when you give people an activity to do like if you are doing like bowling or and making it like glamorous or like um you know now brands are are if they're doing a collab with like an athletic brand they'll they'll take a bunch of women to like tennis courts or a golf club in Connecticut and like that's a photo op for everybody involved.

D. Um, so like these mini expeditions or like Jay Crew last year took a bunch of people on a gorgeous sailboat in the Hudson River off of like the seapport. It's basically like take your customers on a date, right? On an extra give them photo. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

Um, and then if you level up, then you're you're gonna start talking about like brand trips like Hermes took people to Aspen last summer. And yeah, I mean a ton of VC firms do that all the time.

Come with us and we'll do a track day or movie night or we'll go out to, you know, the some, you know, beautiful place, some ranch, and like shoot shotguns and have dinners and it's a whole weekend. Where's my call? I want to do that. They should get you on the calls. We'll we'll introduce you some folks.

um postmortem on the Democratic primary, but just on the marketing, right? There was a lot of um coverage of uh Zoron's basically film, you know, vertical video making abilities that seems to have played a key role in the campaign. I'm curious.

Are you talking to any like Tik Tockers or content creators that are like, I want to build a business around this for politicians? That would be interesting.

Yeah, I had a friend who I used actually used to work with at Kai Nast who worked in the White House for Biden and I think that she helped out with Zoran's campaign.

Like there are people who know I think like you have to be excellent at that job if you're working for um a political camp political campaign and especially in the White House because the turnaround times are insane and the levels of approvals that they need to go through are crazy as they should be.

Um so I think there's like a mini network. I mean, there's there are a lot of people that worked in the White House under Biden who used to work at Instagram. Like they were recruited straight from Meta. So, that's definitely a thing.

Um, but I think that organizing is a tremendous amount of work and like part of that is digitally now like and and Zoran did that really well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting to think about how the presidential election felt like the podcast election and then the the this primary felt like the short form election.

Uh and that sort of it makes sense especially as you're trying to just appeal to younger and younger voters like in the city. I mean his team invited me to start covering his campaign back in February.

like I was I was at a party I think in March for him, but he's he also went on um like throwing fits and a few other podcasts and he did like a Q&A with me for Feed Me. So, he his team knew where to where to go. That's good. Uh we've been talking a ton about uh the AI talent wars.

There's a lot of people in Silicon Valley making $100 million for in signing bonuses. Uh Silicon Valley notoriously bad at spending money. New York famously good at spending money. What are some recommendations that you can give to these PhD researchers that have a hundred million dollars burning a hole in their pocket?

They want to get in the game. They want to step up their fashion, their cars, their houses. What would you recommend? It's It's funny that you go to fashion and cars because I think there's a real uh a Louis manion situation on our hands here with this kind of job. So, I feel like you need a security guard.

Like a security guard for sure. Y um plain clothes security guard, which means like those tight Lacost polos, you know. Okay. Maybe they should be carrying too. Maybe they should, you know, if you got the you got to be everyday carry now if you're making 100 million. California has gotten more lenient. Yeah.

So, I I feel like you have to staff up in a in a position like this. like you want a driver who's trustworthy and isn't going to like leak your information, a personal trainer who's trustworthy, a feed me subscription, of course.

Um, and then I think it's like removing friction from areas of your life with with like staffing up like that. I recently learned that um this neighborhood in the Hamptons called Sagaponic is a a microclimate and I'm I feel like that's a good place to invest your money. Um, wait, break that down a little bit better.

A little bit more. It's just it's just on an average day, it's nicer there. I think it's not necessarily nicer. I think it might be like wetter and more humid than other areas. Like I am in a different neighborhood than that.

And if you were there right now, it would feel different than here, even though it's not that far away. Yeah. Yeah.

Like like you can be like Long Island as a whole is hot today, but Psychoponic could could have a different weather report because it's this micro subclimate and the tides and the trees and there's different parts of LA that have the same kind of dynamic as well. Yeah. I mean, isn't San Francisco like that too? Yes.

Famously. That's why in the summer it'll still be it'll still be foggy and stuff. Uh but then it's really warm later in the year and so Right. Yeah. So, I feel like investing in a microclim climate is a good way to spend your That just sounds wise. Yeah. They're not making any more of them. They're not.

And then I I think that you'd need to use your money to start taking some some experts to dinner because you can't just start buying watches and clothes. There's a really high chance that you'll miss and go for like trendy items. So, I would try to hang out with like do you guys know the watch dealer Mike Novo?

like somebody like him or you know like take him out, talk to him and and get some advice. I bought a watch from him last year and he seems like he knows his stuff. What'd you pick up? Um I got my husband a nice watch. Okay, let's go. Let's hear it for the husband. Congratulations. Two size gongs, one interview.

That's how you know it's a good one. A birthday and a gift. Fantastic. and maybe like befriend Chris Black or like another stylish guy and get him to advise consult on the closet.

You can you get us Can you get us Chris Black on the show because I the only podcast merch I've ever bought was their merch that they released was the cease and desist from the New York Times because they like copied the cover art and they just printed made a shirt sold it. Great. It was a It was a work of art.

Chris would definitely come on. I'll connect you guys. Um, yeah. I think that the biggest mistake that people who come into a lot of money quickly make is just, you know, doing that automatic Apple Pay on on while they're shopping and then you end up with stuff that doesn't fit you or looks horrible or something. Yeah.

So, stylists, tech, stylist, paid friends, take people out to dinner, host parties, like keep them around, you know. Um, do you do you think it's good to surround yourself with yesmen?

What do you what's how do you So, if you surround yourself with yesmen, then whatever ideas you have, all your yes men will just tell you yes, that's the best idea ever. A lot of people say don't do it. But maybe it's not that. Everyone around me has been saying that it's a good idea. No, I would not. That's not good.

Okay. So, stay away from the yes men. Yeah, you want yes people on your team where you say, "I want to do the impossible. " And they just say, "Yes, we're going to do it. " But, uh, there's there's a line, you know, you don't you don't want to cross it. Well, thank you so much for stopping by. This was fantastic.

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