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.
The blue check fiasco reveals a shallow understanding of how status motivates participation in social networks. Here is a deeper look.
Ian Borthwick’s secrets of influencer marketing
What does the future hold for readers and writers on Twitter?
A conflict of interest
I hope it becomes a new paradigm for the creator economy
How and why early-stage startups sacrifice growth for power
Nat Eliason helps us understand Decentralized Finance from first principles
Commoditizing tweets’ complement (the algorithm) will increase usage and rebuild trust
(Spoilers, as usual!) In the this episode of Ted Lasso, Higgins decides to take Coach Beard aside and ask him whether he really thinks it's
Advice for Generalist Founders
A guide to the “right way” (discounted cash flow analysis), and why “everything is dumb right now.”
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Packy McCormick, author of Not Boring, one of the most widely-read analysts in tech. His newsletter now has more than 75k subscribers and he
A friendly rebuttal
An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem
Is being Sequoia actually pretty easy?
Pinterest’s Global Head of Content & Creators unpacks why they’re doubling down on creators
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A guide to Porter’s “Five Forces” framework—through the lens of Spotify
Variant and Atelier Ventures join forces as the passion economy and the ownership economy converge
Businesses plateau for two reasons: Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome) They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strat
Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong
Jason Prado, Head of Product at the Drivers Cooperative, is bridging the gap between labor and capital
On launching and learning
