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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“There’s a massive appetite for content that goes beyond 280“ - Head of Longform Content Nick Sallon
"I like the idea of culture being more valuable and more people being able to profit from their taste" - Kyle Chayka
One new strategy. Two new websites.
Read to the end for why Warner Music Group paid $85m for a meme-making company
Dani Loftus on disrupting the trillion dollar global fashion industry
Six attributes of high-traction startups
After giving Nathan proper credit for getting him to finally listen to—and enjoy—podcasts, Dan takes a pressing question from a recent one t
David Dobrik’s new photo-sharing app just might be a winner.
On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities
A eulogy for a larger-than-life thinker
Hiten Shah on why “garbage in, garbage out” applies to strategy, too.
With a little help from Clay Christensen, strategy legend
A market analysis, Divinations-style
And how the best of OnlyFans can be applied to other platforms
News Roundup #13: lottery meets YouTuber, Reddit’s Dubsmash acquisition, and a database with 20,000+ newsletters
Read to the end for an insightful OnlyFans creator AMA
Nathan takes Dan behind his latest Divinations essay, “Why Content is King,” from the writing process—which included drafting the piece in l
Nathan and Dan talk to Brian McCullough, host of the Techmeme Ride Home podcast, about how the ad deal in last week’s Bundle Digest came abo
We’re launching a new series to bring you along the journey of figuring out Every’s visual identity! The first episode (which is longer tha
Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”
Also: Patreon’s push towards creator equity, SMS platforms for creators, podcast advertising consolidation, and more
Mirror’s Patrick Rivera on the convergence of crypto and the creator economy
Hello again! Yesterday after I published the Sahil Lavingia interview I received a tweet from my friend Alex: https://twitter.com/CantHardyW
