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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.
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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
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
A guide to Porter’s “Five Forces” framework—through the lens of Spotify
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(Ceci n’est pas investment advice.)
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
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
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
Creators are businesses. Over time, they will start to act like it.
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
"I like the idea of culture being more valuable and more people being able to profit from their taste" - Kyle Chayka
Or, why friendly ambitious nerds will change the world
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
The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible
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Nathan Baschez
Dan Shipper
Li Jin