Evan Armstrong

Evan Armstrong is the lead writer at Every. He explores profit and power in technology in his column, Napkin Math.

Mar 23, 2023

How AI Changes the Media Business

Why community and social network effects will be key to winning the future

Sep 8, 2022

What I Learned From Being Cancer Free

Seven Years of Freedom

Mar 7, 2024

Ads in the Age of AI

Weirder, different, and new

Nov 9, 2023

We Should All Want to Be Mitt Romney

What is the point of F U money if you never say F U?

Sep 30, 2021

NFT Projects are just MLMs for Tech Elites

A somewhat impartial review of current NFT business models

May 19, 2022

How Startups Can Survive the Creator Economy Winter

The Race for Revenue Share

Nov 10, 2022

Pinterest Has a Chance

The first full-stack shopping platform

May 4, 2023

7 Reasons Media Is a No-Good, Horrible, Rotten Business That I Love Anyways

Plus a few things that bring me hope

Oct 1, 2024

Dad Mode

The secret to personal growth isn't in self-help books or ayahuasca trips. It's in a $1.99 pregnancy test from Target.

Jul 27, 2023

Snap’s Probably Screwed (Again)

Maybe Elon should buy it

Jul 21, 2022

Crypto Has A Use Case

How Braintrust Used Tokens to Kickstart a Market

Mar 21, 2024

Why Polarity Pays

The complicated social and financial incentives at the heart of online publishing

Jul 11, 2024

Searching for Signal

When building a startup gets hard, where should we turn?

Feb 25, 2022

Joe Rogan: The Platform-Proof Creator

Spotify’s No-Win Predicament

Jul 18, 2024

A New Book of the Startup Bible

It’s the rare business book that you should actually read

Mar 26, 2024

How to Make Millions on Discord

A new distribution channel has opened

Sep 22, 2022

The AI Writer

How tech is changing what it means to be an author

Sep 14, 2023

Defense Tech Shouldn’t Be Sexy

Weapons are a necessary evil, not a hype-y consumer product

Sep 19, 2024

Live Fuller, Not Bigger

You must escape the shallow joy of more

Dec 7, 2023

The Impossibility of Being Charlie

RIP to nerd Jesus

Nov 24, 2021

How Do You Compete with Free?

Notion: The Embattled Artist

Jul 15, 2022

Has Venture Lost Its Soul?

A Book Review of The Power Law

Jun 27, 2023

Shopping for AI Shovels: The MosaicML Acquisition

Why would Databricks spend $1.3B?

Dec 5, 2024

The Religion of Ramp

How the fintech became one of the fastest-growing startups—ever