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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.
Businesses plateau for two reasons: Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome) They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strat
A special episode with your Means of Creation hosts
Read to the end for a 9-year-old YouTube star who launched a Roblox world
A guide to Porter’s “Five Forces” framework—through the lens of Spotify
And how software relates to the Passion Economy
A radical new take on email
The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible
The “divine discontent” critique
(Ceci n’est pas investment advice.)
Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020
Also: Dispo’s $200 million valuation, MrBeast sells 1 million burgers, Spotify’s latest announcements, and more
Three Shorts: Notion, Roam, and “Time Preference”
Also: Mark Cuban’s plan to take on Clubhouse, Influencer unions, Triller’s latest content strategy, TikTok’s recipe-saving feature, and more
After catching up with the latest from Coinbase and its employees, Nathan tells Dan about his week…which honestly sounds more like a country
Read to the end for how women face unique challenges in the passion economy
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
She distills the secrets of the world's most successful people & companies
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
Hiten Shah on why “garbage in, garbage out” applies to strategy, too.
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
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