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 29, 2021

The Market Wedge: How to Pick Your Initial Market

How and why early-stage startups sacrifice growth for power

Jan 24, 2022

DeFi Explained

Nat Eliason helps us understand Decentralized Finance from first principles

Sep 15, 2020

Identifying The Next Generation of Celebrities, with Blake Robbins

And why David Dobrik may have a bigger impact than David Letterman

Aug 16, 2021

Building a Driver-Owned Alternative to Uber and Lyft

Jason Prado, Head of Product at the Drivers Cooperative, is bridging the gap between labor and capital

Aug 27, 2021

Spotify Bets on Apple Antitrust

Their new paid podcast feature only makes sense in a world where in-app purchase rules are relaxed.

Aug 19, 2021

Twitter’s Longform Strategy

What does the future hold for readers and writers on Twitter?

Sep 6, 2021

How Power Works in Venture Capital

Is being Sequoia actually pretty easy?

Apr 16, 2021

A New Funnel for Music

Recent news from TikTok, ConvertKit, and Ditto reveal an emerging new funnel for music creators to directly acquire, engage, and monetize fans.

Apr 26, 2021

Facebook’s Foray into Audio

Why are they doing it? And will it work?

Mar 14, 2022

The Rise of Fashion NFTs

Dani Loftus on disrupting the trillion dollar global fashion industry

Jan 28, 2020

Inside Overstock’s strategy shift from horizontal to vertical

Geoff Atkinson, the former SVP Marketing at Overstock, explains how strategy shifts can emerge through experimentation

Dec 5, 2021

The Three Systems Beneath Network Effects

An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem

Aug 23, 2020

Instagram can’t recreate TikTok’s Magic

The content format is a red herring. What really matters is the structure and purpose of TikTok’s network, which is antithetical to Instagram.

Dec 19, 2020

#51 - How content has network effects

Nathan takes Dan behind his latest Divinations essay, “Why Content is King,” from the writing process—which included drafting the piece in l

Mar 5, 2020

Dominance Friction

Jesse Beyroutey, partner at IA Ventures, on why some companies achieve dominance while others get bogged down.

Sep 20, 2021

Will DAOs replace Corporations?

Or, how NounsDAO plans to take over the world

Mar 21, 2022

DAOs Explained

Coordinape co-founder Tracheopteryx on how DAOs function, and what they entail for the future of work

Apr 6, 2022

Friendly Competition and Subtle Defection

My wife and I recently bought our first home and we’re expecting our first child soon, so, as you can imagine, we’ve been doing a lot of wor

May 20, 2021

Why I Love Working at Startups

A friendly rebuttal

Feb 28, 2022

Ethereum Explained

Preethi Kasireddy on what Ethereum is and how it works

Feb 19, 2021

Why I like Dispo

David Dobrik’s new photo-sharing app just might be a winner.

May 19, 2022

How To Time The Market (Or Not)

A Book Review of “Mastering the Market Cycle”

Mar 10, 2022

How To Buy The Dip

Is now a great time to buy? Or a terrible one?

Feb 4, 2021

A Post-Mortem for Social Podcast Discovery

Three reasons why RSS still dominates in audio, but not text.