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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.
Dan and Nathan talk about helping Chris Bosh launch a newsletter: The Last Chip.
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YouTube revealed $30B in creator payouts and is incentivizing creators to use “Shorts”, an OnlyFans-like platform connecting foodies with chefs, and more
And the future of worker classification
Ian Borthwick’s secrets of influencer marketing
Two theories; one of them good
The return of Three Shorts!
Short-form premium video is here to stay.
Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong
Read to the end for why Warner Music Group paid $85m for a meme-making company
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This is the audio edition of Understanding the Covid-19 Recession. If you’d like these to be delivered to your podcast app every week, clic
Welcome to Means of Creation!Every Friday, Li and Nathan interview a guest in the passion economy — founders, creators and operators who are
Two new things this week for subscribers! I narrated an audio version of this article just for paying subscribers like you. I’m going to do
(Ceci n’est pas investment advice.)
Nathan walks Dan through the ideas and strategy behind his new Divinations series, Three Shorts. How do you get from the Zone of Ignorance t
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As the Everything bundle grows, Nathan’s focus seems to have disappeared. Dan helps him troubleshoot, and by the end of the episode, we deci
Why is there so much animosity between the tech industry and journalists? Dan and Nathan try to sort through the muck.
This week on the Divinations podcast, Adam Keesling and I are interviewed by our pal Dan Shipper about our Quibi prediction piece! How to Li
Dan Shipper
Li Jin
Nathan Baschez
