Nathan Baschez is the cofounder and CEO of AI word processor Lex. He cofounded Every, was the first employee at Substack, and co-created Product Hunt.
Welcome to Means of Creation!Every Friday, Li and Nathan interview a guest in the passion economy — founders, creators and operators who are
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Nathan and Dan discuss how a new kind of media business model requires them to rethink how to fairly compensate writers for the bundle. Ho
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Nathan walks Dan through the ideas and strategy behind his new Divinations series, Three Shorts. How do you get from the Zone of Ignorance t
The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible
News Roundup #13: lottery meets YouTuber, Reddit’s Dubsmash acquisition, and a database with 20,000+ newsletters
Good afternoon! Here’s the audio version of the Quibi essay that Adam Keesling and I published today. It’s narrated by me, and the first few
Brian Wang joins Nathan and Dan on a special episode that’s longer than usual! Brian’s an executive coach who helps founders with the emoti
Can disruption be simplified?
"I like the idea of culture being more valuable and more people being able to profit from their taste" - Kyle Chayka
Dan and Nathan are both writing about Clay Christensen’s iconic theory of disruption, so we decided the second week of July every year is go
What happens when an economy holds its breath?
Erik Forman on how to counteract the precarious realities of today’s platform economy
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Dan and Nathan discuss adding Tiago Forte to the Everything bundle, and take bets on how the launch will go. Click here to read the transcri
This is the audio edition of Inside the Clubhouse, narrated by me!
For our guest this week on Means of Creation we welcomed Joseph Albanese, co-founder and CEO of Stir!As we’ve discussed on the show before,
Hello! Welcome to Three Shorts, a recurring series where I unpack the strategy behind the news in as few bullet points as possible.Enjoy!Fas
Dan and Nathan start out discussing the concept of Talk Therapy: a place to talk about the process of building a media business as it happen
How strict prioritization processes cause malaise, and why you should take gut instinct more seriously in your planning process.
Or, why friendly ambitious nerds will change the world
