Means of Creation #5: Nathan Barry

On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing

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Our guest on Means of Creation this week is Nathan Barry, co-founder of ConvertKit!

Nathan got his start in the passion economy nearly 10 years ago, when he launched a series of books for web and mobile designers. They became a massive success, but he wanted to try something new.

So Nathan set his sights on creating a SaaS product. The natural place to begin was scratching his own itch, so he decided to build an email marketing platform for creators. He named it ConvertKit. Today, ConvertKit has 56 employees and is growing as fast as ever!

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