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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.
What happens when a product company tries to run a platform?
Dan takes Nathan through his Superorganizers piece on Spatial Organizing. The technique is useful for a pretty much any project, from writin
One new strategy. Two new websites.
Plus, find new Substacks, a16z on the Passion Economy, and how to grow your podcast
BitClout is a new service that allows anyone to create a publicly-tradable token. Will it work? What effect could it have?
Dan interviews Nathan about his forthcoming series of Divinations essays that explore critiques of the traditional theory of disruption. In
A eulogy for a larger-than-life thinker
Two friends start a business together. What could go wrong? Click here to read the transcript for this episode.
Six attributes of high-traction startups
My recent interview with Jesse Beyroutey solidified a hunch that I’ve been nursing for awhile: Incentive alignment is one of the most import
Four months ago, when we only had a couple hundred paying subscribers, Adam Keesling made a financial model that predicted we’d have 1,462 c
A post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup
Get your questions answered by your Means of Creation hosts
How to understand the essence of any business
Nathan and Dan discuss how they test for what kind of content resonates. P.S. — Here’s the essay on Oatly’s marketing by Nat Eliason just p
Nathan interviews Dan about the latest Bundle Digest experiment and the overall strategy to make it into its own newsletter. How did you fe
Also: Spotify’s answer to Clubhouse, Cameo’s $1 billion valuation, Substack’s $650 million valuation, and more
Nathan interviews Dan about his latest Superorganizers article, “Dopamine Stacking.” Why are we always compelled to try new tools, which of
What happens when an economy holds its breath?
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Nathan Baschez
