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.’

Nov 27, 2024

How We Incubate and Launch New Products With AI

What happens when you mix media, software, and AI—and how it’s going so far

Oct 29, 2020

#39 - Cultivating Caring

Using the exciting new launch of Ask Jerry as a springboard, Nathan and Dan parse out the importance of radical self-inquiry in business, an

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

Jun 9, 2025

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Oct 7, 2020

#33 - How to use Spatial Organizing

Dan takes Nathan through his Superorganizers piece on Spatial Organizing. The technique is useful for a pretty much any project, from writin

Feb 3, 2025

We Tried OpenAI’s New Deep Research—Here’s What We Found

Vibe check: It’s awesome.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Feb 12, 2023

Bonus: Chatbot Sample Code and Metrics Updates

For paying subscribers only

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

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

Oct 3, 2021

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

Everything we published this week

Feb 17, 2023

Workshop: Learn to Write With AI

ChatGPT, GPT-3, and Lex as powerful tools in the writing process

Jan 8, 2023

Access to our Science Chat Bot

Use it and download the source code

Nov 13, 2024

How to Win With Prompt Engineering

Jared Zoneraich on why human experts matter more than ever

Jul 7, 2025

Toward a Definition of AGI

AGI is intelligence too valuable to shut off

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

Oct 3, 2020

#32 - Are we prioritizing correctly?

Dan talks with Nathan about his latest article, Intangible Returns, and they reflect on their own prioritization strategies as a company. W

Feb 9, 2024

Should You Buy a Vision Pro? A Guide

How much would you pay for a dream come true?

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