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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Advice for Generalist Founders
What does the future hold for readers and writers on Twitter?
Pinterest’s Global Head of Content & Creators unpacks why they’re doubling down on creators
Also in this week’s roundup: Clubhouse’s $1b valuation, a16z’s new media property, Forbes’s new deal for writers, and Instagram’s plan to keep up with TikTok.
Three reasons why RSS still dominates in audio, but not text.
Packy McCormick, author of Not Boring, one of the most widely-read analysts in tech. His newsletter now has more than 75k subscribers and he
Commoditizing tweets’ complement (the algorithm) will increase usage and rebuild trust
Nat Eliason helps us understand Decentralized Finance from first principles
A guide to the “right way” (discounted cash flow analysis), and why “everything is dumb right now.”
Also: OnlyFans is launching a creative fund for musicians, #BookTok is leading to a resurgence in book sales, and more
A conflict of interest
I hope it becomes a new paradigm for the creator economy
How and why early-stage startups sacrifice growth for power
An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem
A friendly rebuttal
(Spoilers, as usual!) In the this episode of Ted Lasso, Higgins decides to take Coach Beard aside and ask him whether he really thinks it's
Is being Sequoia actually pretty easy?
Also: Getty Images acquires Unsplash, LinkedIn’s new creator mode, the math behind MrBeast’s businesses, and more
A guide to Porter’s “Five Forces” framework—through the lens of Spotify
Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong
On launching and learning
Businesses plateau for two reasons: Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome) They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strat
It’s not like war, but it’s not like art class, either.
