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.
Read to the end for why Warner Music Group paid $85m for a meme-making company
Hints that your strategy isn't working
Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020
Introducing our newest publication, Glassy! (A weekly study of technology through the lens of gender.)
"I like the idea of culture being more valuable and more people being able to profit from their taste" - Kyle Chayka
Nathan takes Dan behind his latest Divinations essay, “Why Content is King,” from the writing process—which included drafting the piece in l
David Dobrik’s new photo-sharing app just might be a winner.
Growing an audience ain’t what it used to be
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
Six attributes of high-traction startups
One new strategy. Two new websites.
News Roundup #13: lottery meets YouTuber, Reddit’s Dubsmash acquisition, and a database with 20,000+ newsletters
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Why are they doing it? And will it work?
How the founder of WorkLife Ventures built one of Silicon Valley’s most sought after emerging funds from scratch.
A market analysis, Divinations-style
With a little help from Clay Christensen, strategy legend
Hiten Shah on why “garbage in, garbage out” applies to strategy, too.
On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities
And how the best of OnlyFans can be applied to other platforms
Li Jin, who co-hosts Means of Creation with Nathan, comes on the show to discuss the economics of her partnership with Every. How did you
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
A eulogy for a larger-than-life thinker
Geoff Atkinson, the former SVP Marketing at Overstock, explains how strategy shifts can emerge through experimentation
