Nathan Baschez

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.

Sep 30, 2020

Enabling Anyone To Create an Online School, with Ankur Nagpal

And what the next phase looks like for Teachable

Aug 10, 2022

Execution is Exponential

The math that quantifies how much execution matters

Mar 22, 2022

DAOs Explained

Coordinape co-founder Tracheopteryx on how DAOs function, and what they entail for the future of work

May 20, 2022

How To Time The Market (Or Not)

A Book Review of “Mastering the Market Cycle”

Nov 4, 2021

How Valuation Works

A guide to the “right way” (discounted cash flow analysis), and why “everything is dumb right now.”

Dec 14, 2021

Braintrust’s Founders on How to Run a Decentralised Marketplace

Gabe Luna Ostaseski & Adam Jackson on why the way we work is broken and how to fix it

Sep 22, 2020

Passion Economy News: TikTok Deal, Creator Debt Financing, OnlyFans Disruption, Artist Monetization, and More

Plus, find new Substacks, a16z on the Passion Economy, and how to grow your podcast

Jul 26, 2021

Playing Games to Earn a Living in the Metaverse

“As a player, you actually earn 2-3x more than an entry-level job” - Gabby Dizon, co-founder of Yield Guild Games

Jul 27, 2022

Instagram’s Existential Bet

They’re betting the farm on Reels. Will it blow up in their face?

Jul 20, 2022

Finding Power: How To Do Market Analysis

A step-by-step process for uncovering the power dynamics that govern any industry

Oct 5, 2022

Good Positioning Makes Everything Easier

Here’s how to do it well

Feb 5, 2021

A Post-Mortem for Social Podcast Discovery

Three reasons why RSS still dominates in audio, but not text.

Mar 8, 2023

Book Review: Mastery

How to gain serenity *and* success with one weird trick (care less about results, and learn to love the process)

Jul 24, 2020

Complexity Convection

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

Aug 20, 2020

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

Nov 23, 2022

My Philosophy of Product Building

Mastering the art of 0 to 1

Feb 19, 2020

Great strategies depend on great inputs — here’s how to find them.

Hiten Shah on why “garbage in, garbage out” applies to strategy, too.

Apr 2, 2020

Why is Netflix more profitable than Spotify?

Three Shorts — April 2nd, 2020

Apr 17, 2020

What can we learn from Facebook Portal?

Three Shorts: Facebook Portal — back from the dead!; an advertising arbitrage opportunity; a funny story about the power of incentives

May 20, 2020

PepsiCo goes DTC

One new strategy. Two new websites.

Aug 20, 2021

Twitter’s Longform Strategy

What does the future hold for readers and writers on Twitter?

Nov 18, 2021

Notes on ConstitutionDAO

A few quick observations

Nov 30, 2021

Li Jin on the journey behind Variant’s new $110M fund to back the ownership economy

Variant and Atelier Ventures join forces as the passion economy and the ownership economy converge

Dec 7, 2021

Should Creators Own Their Means of Creation?

Erik Forman on how to counteract the precarious realities of today’s platform economy