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.
Pinterest’s Global Head of Content & Creators unpacks why they’re doubling down on creators
You probably can't have your cake and eat it too. But that's just fine.
Three reasons why RSS still dominates in audio, but not text.
Ian Borthwick’s secrets of influencer marketing
A conflict of interest
Nat Eliason helps us understand Decentralized Finance from first principles
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Commoditizing tweets’ complement (the algorithm) will increase usage and rebuild trust
I hope it becomes a new paradigm for the creator economy
How and why early-stage startups sacrifice growth for power
A friendly rebuttal
Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong
Advice for Generalist Founders
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
A guide to Porter’s “Five Forces” framework—through the lens of Spotify
A guide to the “right way” (discounted cash flow analysis), and why “everything is dumb right now.”
(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?
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Jason Prado, Head of Product at the Drivers Cooperative, is bridging the gap between labor and capital
Variant and Atelier Ventures join forces as the passion economy and the ownership economy converge
An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem
Businesses plateau for two reasons: Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome) They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strat
How the Fed accidentally scuttled your Series B, simply explained
