Evan Armstrong

Evan Armstrong is the lead writer at Every. He explores profit and power in technology in his column, Napkin Math.

Jul 15, 2022

Has Venture Lost Its Soul?

A Book Review of The Power Law

Sep 22, 2022

The AI Writer

How tech is changing what it means to be an author

Mar 16, 2023

Technology Is Good Actually

Startups screw up sometimes, but making things cheaper is a moral necessity

May 11, 2023

Why Are Republicans Better at Making Money on the Internet?

What consumer tech and media got wrong

Apr 15, 2021

COGS: How I Bankrupted MoviePass

An Intuitive Explainer for How To Lose Money and Win Anyway

Mar 23, 2022

BIG announcement incoming

I'm going full time on Napkin Math

Jul 16, 2024

What I Got Wrong About VR

Whoopsie, I may have gotten a little excited

Apr 22, 2021

Am I getting ripped off writing at Every?

Screenshots of my contract and the financial model I used to decide

Jan 13, 2022

3 Thoughts On Justworks

The newest SaaS company to hit the public markets

Dec 7, 2023

The Impossibility of Being Charlie

RIP to nerd Jesus

Jan 6, 2022

What the hell is going on with Lambda School?

The complicated business of selling social good

Nov 13, 2021

Top 12 Creator Platforms—Ranked

Who has the brawn to capture creator’s profit?

Jun 6, 2023

The Bugman Cometh

My sick, unexplainable desire to buy a face computer

Aug 16, 2024

Feasting at the Trough of AI Slop

AI imagery is more popular, more powerful, and less harmful than you think

Jan 30, 2025

Who Wins the AI Agent Battle?

What OpenAI’s Operator tells us about what comes next in artificial intelligence

Feb 10, 2022

Is YC the Monopoly It Thinks It Is?

The Pricing Power Flex

May 5, 2022

The Empire Stripes Back

A $100B Bet on Two Brothers

Feb 6, 2025

The Vatican Has Some Thoughts on AI

In a new statement, the Catholic Church expounds on the nature of human versus machine intelligence, and its views on the utility of AI

Sep 24, 2024

The One-person Billion-dollar Company

Can AI agents make you a billionaire?

Jun 21, 2024

You Can’t Math Your Way to Success

Whether in art, startups, or parenting, you can only control so much

May 15, 2024

Google Goes All In on AI

The company has every possible advantage, but can they use it?

May 26, 2022

The Addiction Economy

Addicted, Overwhelmed, Oversubscribed: How Technology Hooked the World

Aug 24, 2023

A TikTok Competitor Is About to IPO—And It’s Deeply Suspicious

Triller's S1 raises questions about its numbers

May 14, 2024

GPT-4o and OpenAI’s Race to Win Consumers

Decoding what the AI leader’s latest release means for the future