Nathan Baschez

@nbaschez

President of Everything!

Talk Therapy

#22 - A behind-the-scenes look into a media deal ft. Li Jin

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

Aug 21, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Means of Creation

Sahil Lavingia wants creators to get interest on their interests

Welcome to Means of Creation!Every Friday, Li and Nathan interview a guest in the passion economy — founders, creators and operators who are

Aug 20, 2020 by Li Jin and Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#21 - What’s the right kind of bad?

In a follow-up to their conversation with executive coach Brian Wang last episode, Dan and Nathan discuss addressing small pain points — bot

Aug 19, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#20 - Couples therapy ft. executive coach Brian Wang

Brian Wang joins Nathan and Dan on a special episode that’s longer than usual! Brian’s an executive coach who helps founders with the emoti

Aug 14, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Divinations

The inventors of “the passion economy” thesis, live on Zoom

I'm interviewing Li Jin and Adam Davidson on Friday!

Aug 12, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#19 - What should we do with our weekly digest?

Nathan and Dan talk through the experiments they’ve run with the weekly Sunday digests and what they’re going to try next. Here’s the link t

Aug 12, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Divinations

Disrupting Disruption: Alex Danco

Two theories; one of them good

Aug 9, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#18 - How do we decide what to publish?

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

Aug 7, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#17 - How should we compensate creators?

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

Aug 5, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Divinations

Means of Creation #5: Nathan Barry

On newsletters, courses, and creator marketing

Aug 2, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

Divinations

Disrupting Disruption Pt. 2 — Ben Thompson

The “divine discontent” critique

Aug 2, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#16 - Should you follow your heart?

Nathan and Dan discuss his latest Superorganizers essay on the framework he developed to help him follow his heart — and filter for the best

Jul 31, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Divinations

Means of Creation #4: Leah Culver & Erik Berlin

The co-founders of Breaker, on podcasting, platforms, and media

Jul 30, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

Divinations

Complexity Convection

The lifecycle of a business is to be born simple, grow complex, and then die.

Jul 24, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#15 - Maker weeks & feedback loops

Two things today: First, a bit of follow-up from last episode. We’re alternating weeks where one of us is in “maker mode” and the other is i

Jul 24, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Divinations

Means of Creation #3: Lenny Rachitsky

On newsletters, platforms, marketplaces, and more

Jul 23, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#14 - Focus pocus

As the Everything bundle grows, Nathan’s focus seems to have disappeared. Dan helps him troubleshoot, and by the end of the episode, we deci

Jul 22, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Divinations

Disrupting Disruption

Strategy’s most famous theory could be wrong

Jul 19, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#13 - Disruption and its discontents

Dan interviews Nathan about his forthcoming series of Divinations essays that explore critiques of the traditional theory of disruption. In

Jul 17, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Divinations

Means of Creation #2: Greg Isenberg

On the unbundling of Reddit into vertical communities

Jul 16, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#12 - It’s Disruption Week!! (part 1)

Dan and Nathan are both writing about Clay Christensen’s iconic theory of disruption, so we decided the second week of July every year is go

Jul 15, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Divinations

Strategy should be painful

Businesses plateau for two reasons: Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome) They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strat

Jul 11, 2020 by Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#11 - Two entrepreneurs and a journalist walk into a podcast

Today, Dan and Nathan welcome guest Alex Kantrowitz to Talk Therapy! (This is a special episode that’s twice as long as usual!) Alex left hi

Jul 10, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Talk Therapy

#10 - Escaping the trough of writing sorrow

Dan and Nathan commiserate over their writing slump and strategize how to escape it. Meanwhile, Adam’s essay hits the top of Hacker News! T

Jul 9, 2020 by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez

Divinations

Announcing: Means of Creation

A new talk show starring Li Jin and yours truly

🔒 Jul 8, 2020 by Nathan Baschez