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.
Read to the end for why Warner Music Group paid $85m for a meme-making company
Introducing our newest publication, Glassy! (A weekly study of technology through the lens of gender.)
Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020
"I like the idea of culture being more valuable and more people being able to profit from their taste" - Kyle Chayka
After giving Nathan proper credit for getting him to finally listen to—and enjoy—podcasts, Dan takes a pressing question from a recent one t
Hints that your strategy isn't working
Growing an audience ain’t what it used to be
News Roundup #13: lottery meets YouTuber, Reddit’s Dubsmash acquisition, and a database with 20,000+ newsletters
Nathan takes Dan behind his latest Divinations essay, “Why Content is King,” from the writing process—which included drafting the piece in l
Why are they doing it? And will it work?
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One new strategy. Two new websites.
David Dobrik’s new photo-sharing app just might be a winner.
Six attributes of high-traction startups
A market analysis, Divinations-style
With a little help from Clay Christensen, strategy legend
On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities
Hiten Shah on why “garbage in, garbage out” applies to strategy, too.
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Li Jin, who co-hosts Means of Creation with Nathan, comes on the show to discuss the economics of her partnership with Every. How did you
A eulogy for a larger-than-life thinker
Geoff Atkinson, the former SVP Marketing at Overstock, explains how strategy shifts can emerge through experimentation
Mirror’s Patrick Rivera on the convergence of crypto and the creator economy
European countries have built a robust social and economic safety net for creators. Why not the US?
