Nathan Baschez

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.

Sep 9, 2020

Improve Your Content Diet, with Polina Marinova

She distills the secrets of the world's most successful people & companies

Oct 13, 2020

Passion Economy News #4: Triller Poaching TikTok Stars, David Dobrik Gets Funding for Dispo, Journalistic Entrepreneurialism, and More

Read to the end for an insightful OnlyFans creator AMA

Jun 12, 2020

Why I wouldn’t invest in consumer health hardware

(Ceci n’est pas investment advice.)

Jul 10, 2020

#11 - Two entrepreneurs and a journalist walk into a podcast

Today, Dan and Nathan welcome guest Alex Kantrowitz to Talk Therapy! (This is a special episode that’s twice as long as usual!) Alex left hi

Jul 15, 2020

#12 - It’s Disruption Week!! (part 1)

Dan and Nathan are both writing about Clay Christensen’s iconic theory of disruption, so we decided the second week of July every year is go

Dec 15, 2020

Side Hustle or Job Replacement? What Platforms Like Poshmark Are Really Providing

News Roundup #13: lottery meets YouTuber, Reddit’s Dubsmash acquisition, and a database with 20,000+ newsletters

Aug 30, 2021

Understanding The Culture and Commerce Driving NFTs

"I like the idea of culture being more valuable and more people being able to profit from their taste" - Kyle Chayka

Sep 25, 2020

#30 - Giving your brain novelty, for fun and profit

Nathan interviews Dan about his latest Superorganizers article, “Dopamine Stacking.” Why are we always compelled to try new tools, which of

Jun 15, 2021

The Creator MBA

Creators are businesses. Over time, they will start to act like it.

Aug 5, 2020

#17 - How should we compensate creators?

Nathan and Dan discuss how a new kind of media business model requires them to rethink how to fairly compensate writers for the bundle. Ho

Jun 6, 2021

The Creator Economy Just Went Mainstream. Why?

Journalist Alex Kantrowitz on Big Tech’s shifting attitude towards creators

May 19, 2020

PepsiCo goes DTC

One new strategy. Two new websites.

Jul 29, 2020

Means of Creation #4: Leah Culver & Erik Berlin

The co-founders of Breaker, on podcasting, platforms, and media

Apr 28, 2020

Sonos Radio: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat

What the speaker company’s new music play is really all about

Sep 1, 2020

How to be a person on the Internet, with Visakan Veerasamy

Or, why friendly ambitious nerds will change the world

Jul 22, 2020

#14 - Focus pocus

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

Dec 1, 2020

Why Slack Was Willing to Sell

Three shorts: the strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible.

Nov 9, 2020

News Roundup #8: Could the Trump bump turn into a Trump slump?

Read to the end for live streaming insights for music creators

Jul 8, 2020

Announcing: Means of Creation

A new talk show starring Li Jin and yours truly

Sep 30, 2020

#31 - Talk Therapy is a mission focused podcast

Dan and Nathan process Coinbase’s decision to disengage from any political issues outside their core focus. What were they trying to do? Wha

Apr 1, 2020

Why is Netflix more profitable than Spotify?

Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020

Jul 2, 2020

Product Case Study: HEY

A radical new take on email

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

Sep 3, 2020

Strategy Smells

Hints that your strategy isn't working

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