Nathan Baschez

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.

Dec 14, 2022

How to Prioritize a Roadmap

10 theses for building better products

May 6, 2022

Map of a Downturn

Untangling the complex causal chain that makes good times go bad

Sep 21, 2021

Will DAOs replace Corporations?

Or, how NounsDAO plans to take over the world

Feb 14, 2022

Introducing Wordie Bird

It's like if Wordle and a mini-crossword had a baby.

Apr 30, 2022

Twitter as a City-State

The Argument for Democracy in Cyberspace

Jan 27, 2021

Twitter Acquires Revue

Also in this week’s roundup: Clubhouse’s $1b valuation, a16z’s new media property, Forbes’s new deal for writers, and Instagram’s plan to keep up with TikTok.

Dec 17, 2021

Is Axie Infinity a Ponzi Scheme?

To Axie Infinity And Beyond!

Mar 15, 2022

The Rise of Fashion NFTs

Dani Loftus on disrupting the trillion dollar global fashion industry

Apr 26, 2023

The Boy Who Cried Unicorn

Rating my predictions from 2020: what worked, what didn’t, and what I learned along the way

Apr 6, 2020

Quibi Will Be A Multi-Billion Dollar Company

Short-form premium video is here to stay.

Apr 17, 2021

A New Funnel for Music

Recent news from TikTok, ConvertKit, and Ditto reveal an emerging new funnel for music creators to directly acquire, engage, and monetize fans.

Jan 25, 2022

DeFi Explained

Nat Eliason helps us understand Decentralized Finance from first principles

Nov 16, 2022

Technology Waves and How to Ride Them

Advice for Generalist Founders

Jan 21, 2022

Year Two

A messy slog that changed everything for me

Jul 12, 2023

Twitter Is Fragmenting

The future of social networks is in smaller communities

Apr 10, 2021

Assessing Clubhouse’s Post-Pandemic Future

Also: Getty Images acquires Unsplash, LinkedIn’s new creator mode, the math behind MrBeast’s businesses, and more

Nov 2, 2022

What to Do After You Launch

Say you just launched a product to a group of users for the first time. What now?

Oct 17, 2022

🤖 How to Get Lex Access

As a paid subscriber to Every, you get access to Lex before anyone else. We realize many of you signed up for Lex with a different email tha

Feb 26, 2022

Peloton’s Next Move: Become a Platform

Opening up to external content is the only way to ensure durability, scalability, and defensibility.

Mar 31, 2022

Recursive Publishing

A force to be reckoned with

Dec 7, 2022

My Philosophy of Product Building (Part III)

On launching and learning

Nov 11, 2020

Three Shorts: Fast’s 1b valuation, McPlant’s power move, and Apple’s disruptive M1 chip

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

Jul 16, 2021

The Product Wedge: How To Scope Your Initial Product

How and why early-stage startups sacrifice power for growth

Jan 8, 2020

“The value chain” is the DNA of business

An introduction to one of Michael Porter’s most enduring frameworks