{"id":109053,"date":"2026-07-07T16:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/my-newsletter-started-as-a-hobby-it-became-a-multimillion-dollar-business\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:27:25","slug":"my-newsletter-started-as-a-hobby-it-became-a-multimillion-dollar-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/my-newsletter-started-as-a-hobby-it-became-a-multimillion-dollar-business\/","title":{"rendered":"My newsletter started as a hobby. It became a multimillion-dollar business."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CJ Gustafson turned his side hustle into a business.Courtesy of CJ Gustafson<br \/>\nCJ Gustafson worked in finance for tech startups.During the pandemic, he started a Substack for CFOs.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/newsletter-made-more-than-cfo-job-2026-7#article\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CJ Gustafson turned his side hustle into a business.Courtesy of CJ Gustafson CJ Gustafson worked in finance for tech startups.During the pandemic, he started a Substack for CFOs.read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":["1"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-make-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}