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.

Dec 10, 2020

Exploring Online Community Dynamics, with Nadia Eghbal

And what content creators can learn from open-source developers

Jan 16, 2020

Your actual competition

A guide to Porter’s “Five Forces” framework—through the lens of Spotify

Jul 11, 2020

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

Dec 17, 2019

How Competition Works

It’s not like war, but it’s not like art class, either.

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

May 20, 2022

Mastering the Market Cycle, by Howard Marks

My chapter-by-chapter summary, with notes and reactions

May 21, 2021

Why I Love Working at Startups

A friendly rebuttal

Feb 11, 2020

The Four Strategies

How to understand the essence of any business

Aug 27, 2021

Spotify Bets on Apple Antitrust

Their new paid podcast feature only makes sense in a world where in-app purchase rules are relaxed.

Oct 5, 2021

What is “Intrinsic” Value?

And does it matter?

Nov 30, 2022

My Philosophy of Product Building (Part II)

Building your v1

Aug 23, 2023

Announcing Lex’s $2.75m Seed Round, Led by True Ventures

Today is a big day here at Every! We have a couple of announcements:We’ve spun out Lex (our AI-powered word processor) to become its own com

Sep 19, 2020

#28 - Can Roam justify the $200m valuation?

Dan interviews Nathan about his latest essay on Roam, the $200 million dollar note-taking app. How did you feel about this episode? Amazing

May 1, 2021

Spotify’s Upcoming “Open Access Platform” is as Surprising as it is Awesome

I hope it becomes a new paradigm for the creator economy

Mar 5, 2020

Dominance Friction

Jesse Beyroutey, partner at IA Ventures, on why some companies achieve dominance while others get bogged down.

Sep 16, 2020

Identifying The Next Generation of Celebrities, with Blake Robbins

And why David Dobrik may have a bigger impact than David Letterman

Nov 18, 2021

Notes on ConstitutionDAO

A few quick observations

Apr 10, 2020

Notion’s $2b Valuation is Sensible, Probably

Three Shorts: Notion, Roam, and “Time Preference”

Jul 3, 2020

Product Case Study: HEY

A radical new take on email

Jul 20, 2021

Inside the Longform Content Game at Twitter

“There’s a massive appetite for content that goes beyond 280“ - Head of Longform Content Nick Sallon

Aug 17, 2022

How Every Executes: two tweaks that generated ~54% more paid subscribers

Real data from our business showing how execution is exponential

Sep 2, 2020

#25 - Behind the scenes of our first ad deal

Nathan and Dan talk to Brian McCullough, host of the Techmeme Ride Home podcast, about how the ad deal in last week’s Bundle Digest came abo

May 12, 2022

Why Sh*t is Hitting the Fan

How the Fed accidentally scuttled your Series B, simply explained

Aug 26, 2020

#23 - Designing our visual identity

We’re launching a new series to bring you along the journey of figuring out Every’s visual identity! The first episode (which is longer tha