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.
Trying something new - what do you think?
Lessons from ecology’s “competitive exclusion principle”
On Snap's take on TikTok, Apple's developer fee reduction, and Vox's talent attrition.
Geoff Atkinson, the former SVP Marketing at Overstock, explains how strategy shifts can emerge through experimentation
Hello again! Yesterday after I published the Sahil Lavingia interview I received a tweet from my friend Alex: https://twitter.com/CantHardyW
Coordinape co-founder Tracheopteryx on how DAOs function, and what they entail for the future of work
Can disruption be simplified?
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
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
Opening a marketplace creates complicated new tradeoffs
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
How the founder of WorkLife Ventures built one of Silicon Valley’s most sought after emerging funds from scratch.
European countries have built a robust social and economic safety net for creators. Why not the US?
The Consumer Social innovator on how audiences become communities — and how you should monetize them
How strict prioritization processes cause malaise, and why you should take gut instinct more seriously in your planning process.
Read to the end for how women face unique challenges in the passion economy
Dan interviews Nathan about his forthcoming series of Divinations essays that explore critiques of the traditional theory of disruption. In
The strategy behind the news, in as few bullet points as possible
A post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup
“We want people to live off their art” - Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström
Plus, find new Substacks, a16z on the Passion Economy, and how to grow your podcast
After reading Dan’s Superorganizers profile on people person Peter Boyce, Nathan wonders why his hands-on approach to social and business ca
Dan and Nathan discuss productivity cycles, the latest version of Sparkle, Dan’s file management system, and how they relate to Nathan’s new
Reacting to the news of Slack’s purchase by Salesforce, Nathan gets into the different opportunities in hardware vs. software and Dan goes d
