Dan Shipper

Dan Shipper is the CEO and cofounder of Every. Every week he explores the frontiers of AI in his column, Chain of Thought, and on his podcast, ‘AI & I.’

Aug 7, 2020

#18 - How do we decide what to publish?

Nathan and Dan discuss how they test for what kind of content resonates. P.S. — Here’s the essay on Oatly’s marketing by Nat Eliason just p

Feb 26, 2025

He Built an AI Audience Simulator. It’s the Future of Customer Research.

Prompt engineer Michael Taylor created a tool that simulates real audience feedback—without the risk

Jun 7, 2020

#0: The story of how we met (start here!)

Two friends start a business together. What could go wrong? Click here to read the transcript for this episode.

Aug 14, 2020

#20 - Couples therapy ft. executive coach Brian Wang

Brian Wang joins Nathan and Dan on a special episode that’s longer than usual! Brian’s an executive coach who helps founders with the emoti

Apr 24, 2024

He Built an AI Model That Can Decode Your Emotions

Alan Cowen on the world’s first AI that can interpret and respond to human feelings

Oct 30, 2024

How Union Square Ventures Built an AI Brain for Venture Capital

Inside Matt Cynamon’s suite of custom AI tools for the tier-A firm

Sep 11, 2020

#27 - How can we give the Bundle Digest its own identity?

Nathan interviews Dan about the latest Bundle Digest experiment and the overall strategy to make it into its own newsletter. How did you fe

Feb 9, 2024

Should You Buy a Vision Pro? A Guide

How much would you pay for a dream come true?

Dec 10, 2020

#48 - Consumable Software

Nathan loops Dan in on something he thought was a problem: falling in and out of love with different software too quickly. Turns out, it’s m

Dec 2, 2020

Action Item: How to create a network from scratch

Ali Hamed of CoVenture shares his tools for getting to the people who can make a difference

Jul 24, 2020

#15 - Maker weeks & feedback loops

Two things today: First, a bit of follow-up from last episode. We’re alternating weeks where one of us is in “maker mode” and the other is i

Jul 15, 2025

The Magic Minimum for AI Agents

Agents don't need to be daily habits to be billion-dollar businesses

Jul 7, 2025

Toward a Definition of AGI

AGI is intelligence too valuable to shut off

Nov 2, 2020

#41 - A Bad Situation…Compounded

Special Emergency Pod! We invited our friend Mario Gabriele on the show to talk about his experience this week publicly staring down a $6 b

Aug 12, 2020

#19 - What should we do with our weekly digest?

Nathan and Dan talk through the experiments they’ve run with the weekly Sunday digests and what they’re going to try next. Here’s the link t

Jul 1, 2020

#8 - The model was actually right!

Four months ago, when we only had a couple hundred paying subscribers, Adam Keesling made a financial model that predicted we’d have 1,462 c

May 14, 2024

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

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

Oct 24, 2020

#38 - RIP Quibi

Dan and Nathan eulogize Quibi – and extend some sympathy to anyone who has a big idea. How did you feel about this episode? Amazing • Good 

Oct 3, 2021

NFTs are MLMs, How to Pick Your Initial Market, and More

Everything we published this week

Jul 9, 2020

#10 - Escaping the trough of writing sorrow

Dan and Nathan commiserate over their writing slump and strategize how to escape it. Meanwhile, Adam’s essay hits the top of Hacker News! T

Sep 13, 2020

High-Output Project Management in Notion

A recording, a template, and a course discount

Aug 7, 2024

How Packy McCormick Finds His Next Big Idea

One of the most influential voices in tech explains how AI helps him write and invest

Feb 2, 2024

Quick Hits: New AI Features From Arc and ChatGPT

The future arrived faster than I expected

Nov 26, 2020

#46 - Is Substack really milquetoast?

Dan and Nathan discuss one of many recent takes on Substack, and try to offer a counterpoint to the idea that newsletter writers need to mak