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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.
Creators are businesses. Over time, they will start to act like it.
And the future of worker classification
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
One new strategy. Two new websites.
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
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
How to understand the essence of any business
Get your questions answered by your Means of Creation hosts
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
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
A post-mortem for a failed prediction, and a failed startup
A guide to Porter’s “Five Forces” framework—through the lens of Spotify
Businesses plateau for two reasons: Their strategy is wrong (Wrong Strategy Syndrome) They fail to execute any strategy at all (Fuzzy Strat
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Nathan Baschez
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