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.
Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”
Hello again! Yesterday after I published the Sahil Lavingia interview I received a tweet from my friend Alex: https://twitter.com/CantHardyW
Trying something new - what do you think?
On Snap's take on TikTok, Apple's developer fee reduction, and Vox's talent attrition.
Geoff Atkinson, the former SVP Marketing at Overstock, explains how strategy shifts can emerge through experimentation
Can disruption be simplified?
My wife and I recently bought our first home and we’re expecting our first child soon, so, as you can imagine, we’ve been doing a lot of wor
Coordinape co-founder Tracheopteryx on how DAOs function, and what they entail for the future of work
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
Opening a marketplace creates complicated new tradeoffs
European countries have built a robust social and economic safety net for creators. Why not the US?
How the founder of WorkLife Ventures built one of Silicon Valley’s most sought after emerging funds from scratch.
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
The Consumer Social innovator on how audiences become communities — and how you should monetize them
Read to the end for how women face unique challenges in the passion economy
How strict prioritization processes cause malaise, and why you should take gut instinct more seriously in your planning process.
Dan interviews Nathan about his forthcoming series of Divinations essays that explore critiques of the traditional theory of disruption. In
Dan and Nathan discuss productivity cycles, the latest version of Sparkle, Dan’s file management system, and how they relate to Nathan’s new
“We want people to live off their art” - Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström
The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible
After reading Dan’s Superorganizers profile on people person Peter Boyce, Nathan wonders why his hands-on approach to social and business ca
Plus, find new Substacks, a16z on the Passion Economy, and how to grow your podcast
A post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup
The founder of Universe joins us to discuss how to democratize website creation
