November 2023 archive

Every article we published in November 2023.

Nov 1, 2023

How Freemium Almost Killed My Business

I thought reducing friction would increase growth. I was wrong.

Bobby Pinero

Nov 2, 2023

How to Win Arguments and Manipulate Managers

Make your spreadsheets shape strategy

Evan Armstrong

Nov 3, 2023

AI Chatbot Course Sneak-Peak

Early-bird pricing for How to Build an AI Chatbot ends November 6

Dan Shipper

Nov 3, 2023

Is Chat the Future of AI?

The promise and perils of chat and ChatGPT

Dan Shipper

Nov 5, 2023

How Freemium Almost Killed My Business, If You Want to Build, You Have to Believe, and More!

Everything we published this week

Every Team

Nov 6, 2023

My Company Died—Learn From My Mistakes

A dispatch from the wild, vicious world of consumer payments

Amanda Peyton

Nov 7, 2023

What I Saw at OpenAI’s Developer Day

Bigger, smarter, faster, cheaper, easier

Dan Shipper

Nov 8, 2023

No Margin, No Mission

The ethical imperative to make a profit

Casey Rosengren

Nov 9, 2023

We Should All Want to Be Mitt Romney

What is the point of F U money if you never say F U?

Evan Armstrong

Nov 10, 2023

A Day at the Center of the AI Boom

In San Francisco, there’s one rule to live by: Layer up.

Dan Shipper

Nov 12, 2023

What I Saw at OpenAI's Developer Day, My Company Died—Learn From My Mistakes, and More!

Everything we published this week

Every Team

Nov 13, 2023

Does Your Startup Feel Chaotic? Good.

As long as you're cultivating the right kind of chaos

Jean Hsu

Nov 14, 2023

To Go 0 to 1, First Go -1 to 0

Why product-market fit requires founder-market fit

Ruchi Sanghvi

Nov 15, 2023

Introducing ‘How Do You Use ChatGPT?’

How the most interesting people in the world use ChatGPT to think, create, and grow

Dan Shipper

Nov 16, 2023

COGS: How I Bankrupted MoviePass

An intuitive explainer for how to lose money and win anyway

Evan Armstrong

Nov 17, 2023

How to Mourn Omegle

We once believed it was good to meet strangers online

Meghna Rao

Nov 19, 2023

Sam Altman Is Dead. Long Live Sam Altman.

How to think about the chaos at OpenAI

Every Team

Nov 21, 2023

The Case Against Sam Altman

The board is bad at their job, but they may not be crazy

Evan Armstrong

Nov 22, 2023

The King Is Back in the Castle

But you only get one coup

Dan Shipper

Nov 27, 2023

How to Build a Better Social Network

We just need to think of it like an economy

Nir Zicherman

Nov 28, 2023

Why I'm Still Building in Web3

And three crypto developments that are actually practical

Kevin Kim

Nov 29, 2023

AI-assisted Decision-making

How to use ChatGPT to master the best of what other people have figured out

Dan Shipper

Nov 30, 2023

How I Use ChatGPT (As A Reasonable Person)

My AI awakening

Evan Armstrong