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.
News Roundup #14: Twitter acquires Breaker, Clubhouse announces a Creator Pilot Program, Substack’s SEO issues and more
Two friends start a business together. What could go wrong? Click here to read the transcript for this episode.
Read to the end to learn how a business model changed a company culture
Creators are businesses. Over time, they will start to act like it.
After reflecting on their expectations for the (extremely successful) Almanack launch, Nathan takes Dan through his new investigation of the
After catching up with the latest from Coinbase and its employees, Nathan tells Dan about his week…which honestly sounds more like a country
Dan and Nathan welcome Andre Plaut, creator of The Prediction Game—a competition to predict the events of the coming year for a tantalizing
Also: Clubhouse’s accelerator program, Twitter’s new monetization tools for Spaces, a platform that lets fans control creators’ lives, and more
Why is there so much animosity between the tech industry and journalists? Dan and Nathan try to sort through the muck.
Dan and Nathan address the news that’s been dominating the Everything Slack all day: Substack’s long-awaited reader, which collects your new
The Divinations Podcast is back! (If you want to add it to your podcast app, press “add to podcast app” by the audio player above!) This wee
News Roundup #15: Solutions for creator burnout, Substack announces new features, Cameo reveals 2020 stats, and more
For our guest this week on Means of Creation we welcomed Joseph Albanese, co-founder and CEO of Stir!As we’ve discussed on the show before,
On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing
And what it means to be a journalist in 2020
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Hey! Something special today :) I always wanted to release the raw audio of the interviews I do. But part of the magic of the original inter
Why are they doing it? And will it work?
A post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup
Nathan and Dan discuss his latest Superorganizers essay on the framework he developed to help him follow his heart — and filter for the best
In a follow-up to their conversation with executive coach Brian Wang last episode, Dan and Nathan discuss addressing small pain points — bot
All reviews of books, podcasts, articles, etc
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
Dan talks with Nathan about his latest article, Intangible Returns, and they reflect on their own prioritization strategies as a company. W