@danshipper @every beyond the dilution, you're also committing to a much much higher growth trajectory
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this is very cool. a lot of people at @every use and like gamma. honest question:
if you're making $2m / employee, profitable, and growing extremely quickly why raise a big round at all? what makes it worth the dilution?
asking for a friend
Grant Lee@thisisgrantlee
Today, as shared by The New York Times, we’re announcing two things: >Our Series B at a $2.1B valuation led by @sarahdingwang at @a16z. >Reaching $100M ARR, profitably, with a team of just 50 people. That's $2M ARR per employee. PowerPoint was invented before the first website, before the Game Boy, before the Berlin Wall fell. But Gamma, and our 70 million users, are proof that an AI-native company can disrupt a category everyone assumed was won. 30 million gammas are created every single month, as we fight hard to become a new standard for communication. But we’re not stopping. We’re expanding our plans for businesses. We’re building out a full visual storytelling platform. And today, we’re releasing our API to the general public. So you can plug Gamma into wherever work happens. And to celebrate, we’re also sharing our first ever prompt guide backed by research into how our most successful users use Gamma to automate presentations, websites, and content in minutes.
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@tednotlasso @farcaster_xyz Great stuff Ted, thanks for sharing!
I also think it's really hard to build new social platforms at same scale of big web2 ones.. I feel like the internet is becoming more fragmented & hard for any consumer app to fight that.
I think about this a lot:
noahpinion.blog/p/the-internet…
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after year+ helping build crypto social, i am in full support and endorse @farcaster_xyz's hard pivot into tokens, trading and the wallet.
sharing some key (hard) learnings from on the ground in case helpful for anyone else building at this intersection:
1. i spent most of last year experimenting with URL to IRL and social connection; it doesn't scale OR you need an entire product team focused on it (think 222, rodeo, timeleft, partiful or luma, etc.) and even then it is still a HUGE risk with slow growth.
2. farcaster is mostly crypto users and has crypto primitives (wallet, coins), but the average person doesn't want to hang out on a crypto social network so >half the existing content and exciting features don't make sense to them. this impacts user acquisition and drives churn.
3. rewarding content with $$ is simply not sufficient to attract new users and have them retain at scale; this was immediately obvious after onboarding the journalists or college students and experimenting with the creator rewards. increasing rewards, improving video UX, etc. was never going to change that.
4. my creator/user onboarding was hand-to-hand combat and the common denominator across the most successful onboarded users was the effort or attention dan, linda or i gave to the relationship; again, not scaleable.
leaning into the wallet and tokens is the single greatest decision farcaster has made (outside of its permissionless primitives) to support growth and i fully endorse it, even if it isn't the vision i initially signed up for.
in fact, i wish the decision to let go of creators / content / connection and instead lean into crypto happened sooner.
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I've used every AI writing tool out there, and they all generate the same unprofessional slop.
@TrySpiral is completely different. It's custom-built for teams that write content across every surface—social posts, blog articles, product updates, emails. It actually sounds like you, not a model.
Here's how it works: Spiral interviews you about what you're trying to say before it writes anything. Then it generates three different drafts at once so you can explore different approaches. It has hundreds of hours of writing principles baked in—things like active voice, putting the most interesting idea in the hook, and actually sounding human.
I'm incredibly proud of @DannyAziz97 for this launch. It's been a labor of love—a complex system that understands your entire business knowledge and every place you write, then acts as an amazing writing partner.
Checkout the screenshot below... we are using Spiral to generate content across ALL of Every, Spiral, Sparkle, Cora, Monologue, Every, Every Courses and more. Over the past month almost every email, changelog, and even tweet as made its way through Spiral to make it sound on brand and be as effective as possible.
This is what professional AI writing looks like.
Dan Shipper 📧@danshipper
BREAKING: We're launching an AI writing partner infused with our taste @every. @TrySpiral will help you write great short-form content in your style that sounds like you—not a model. We’ve loaded it with everything we know about writing—writing that feels alive and honest, and that spreads—and put it at your fingertips. Spiral v3 is a multi-agent system that takes you from idea to post in a few simple steps: 1. Collaborative interviews. When you ask Spiral to write a piece of content, it won’t start writing immediately. Instead, it will chat with you to figure out what you’re really trying to say and what’s most interesting to you. 2. Many drafts at once. Once Spiral begins to draft, it will write three different versions that you can see and interact with simultaneously. You can explore the space of possibilities and mix and match between different drafts easily. 3. Principled and taste-driven. We’ve spent hundreds of hours baking everything we know about writing into Spiral’s thought -process. It has a library of principles that it draws from—like always using the active voice, and always putting the most interesting idea in the hook—that make Spiral feel like a great ghostwriter, not an AI. 4. Collaborative and team-ready. Spiral has Workspaces that allow you to share product and company information and styles between members of your team—so all of your writing is on brand, all the time. You can buy Spiral standalone or if you're an @every subscriber you get it for free as part of your subscription along with access to all of our writing, our live AI-coding workshops like Claude Code Camp, @CoraComputer, @usemonologue, @SparkleApp, and our subscriber-only Discord. Try Spiral v3 now: writewithspiral.com
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@joshcrnls @privy_io That’s a lot of apps! Feature was built for you lol
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massive quality of life upgrade, ty @privy_io
Privy@privy_io
1/ Introducing: Privy Home A secure control layer for embedded wallets. → For developers: give users low-level wallet controls without overcomplicating your app. → For users: a simple hub to track and manage your wallets across every app you use.
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For most people, a much, much better use of time is seeing friends and family in real life.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
For most people, the best use of the @Grok app is turning old photos into videos, seeing old friends and family members come to life
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personal news (?): I'm very excited to be working with Kevin on a new AI book!
send us your stories, souvenirs, rare PDFs 🖇️
Kevin Roose@kevinroose
Some news: I'm writing a book about AGI! I've spent the past few years hanging out in San Francisco's AGI scene — the small cluster of people working to build human-level AI, or trying to stop it from being built, or living as if it's already here. I've heard a lot of great stories, and done a bunch of columns and podcasts. But I think this era also deserves a real-time, journalistic account that captures all of the nuance and detail and behind-the-scenes drama of the race to AGI in a durable format. So I'm writing one. Get in touch if you have stories to share!
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Just spent a couple of days in Durham with my family. There’s no way kids stop going to college. It’s the greatest. I loved everything about being back down there, down to the smell of the air.
If anything, if things go well, more of us will have college-like experiences longer.
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Introducing Hyperlegible, a new series from Not Boring Radio (nbr).
I’m going to have conversations with the people who write my favorite essays each week. Sometimes, many a week. As many great essays as people write.
Ep 1: @fkpxls on Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective.
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Anyone got tips to turn Instagram followers into newsletter subscribers?
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News!
Introducing @Every Consulting: AI training, adoption, and innovation––from makers, not management consultants.
We've been quietly consulting with mid-to-large sized companies for the past nine months—and now we’re ready to bring everything we know about AI to your organization.
The problem we solve
About 10% of people in any company are actually using AI. These are the early adopters, the curious technophiles, the ambitious people who read @Every—people like you.
Everyone else? Ten percent are vehemently against it. And 80 percent are willing to use it—but really, they just want to get their jobs done. And who can blame them?
They’re in a tight bind. Do they do their work the old way, and guarantee it gets done well and on time? Or do they take a risk, and try a new tool? If it doesn’t work, they may end up way behind schedule, and have to work twice as hard to catch up. So they keep running on the treadmill: doing things the same old way while the landscape of tools shifts under their feet.
That’s where we come in. Over the last year, we’ve noticed this dynamic over and over again in the large organizations we interact with, and we’ve been quietly consulting with a select few that want to get ahead in AI.
How we solve this problem
Our team of entrepreneurs, designers, writers, and editors study their organizations, and produce custom training for their employees that dramatically increase AI adoption and productivity.
We train teams on off-the-shelf tools like ChatGPT and Claude. And we also build custom solutions—from custom GPTs to full-blown AI apps if needed.
We don’t teach theory. Instead, we help you use AI to make your Mondays better. We won’t just help you imagine what’s possible—we’ll get you doing it.
Interested? Learn more at every.to/consulting
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@joshcrnls This feels directionally correct but also seems like it would become much harder to find customers / audience. Maybe that gives us more SMB’s than unicorns.
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so confident opportunities at the consumer app layer explode alongside ai
- everyone can code so way more gets built
- more searching for meaning / belonging creates way more demand for niche opinionated experiences
- transaction fees offer a new killer business model that requires way less scale than ads
- tokens / new fundraising models remove gatekeepers to capital and break us out of the restrictive & binary ipo or bust startup environment
- open social graphs make bootstrapping social products easy
- software continues eating money, fashion, entertainment, content blowing open the surface area of opportunities
saas is dead, long live consumer
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Trying to decide which books to bring on vacation next week, to read on the plane and whenever I can.
So far I’m thinking:
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Had a blast nerding out with @cjgustafson on how to grow consumer subscription businesses:
youtube.com/watch?v=zEEN8q…
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I hate email – it’s an endless to-do list written by everyone but me. So @every, we decided to fix it.
Today, we’re introducing a new, human way to manage your inbox – it’s called Cora. It’s different and it took me a bit to get used to… but now I’d never go back.
Now, I read through hundreds of emails a day in <2 minutes and my inbox is an HQ to focus on what matters in a way that feels so much more human.
Here’s how it works:
Your inbox only contains email from humans that need a response.
Cora automatically drafts replies to common requests (in your voice!).
Twice a day, you get a beautiful brief that summarizes everything you received.
There’s a ton of thoughtful features packed in it – and I can’t wait for you to discover them.
We’re onboarding people every day. Join the waitlist to experience the most human way to do email: cora.computer
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The Internet’s Collapse into Now by @nilsedison
@rm/the-internets-collapse-into-now" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">paragraph.xyz/@rm/the-intern…
3 upvotes, published on @paragraph_xyz and submitted to @KiwiNewsHQ by @mishaderidder
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Slow twitter day.
Recent books: American Colossus, The Prize, Saudi Inc., Zero to One, Cable Cowboy, Kochland, My Life and Work, Empires of Light, The Wright Brothers, Dealers of Lightning, The First Tycoon, The Fish That Ate the Whale
What should I add to the list?
Packy McCormick@packyM
Look, you're not going to read a long essay on tech today. We both know it. So I'm going to take this opportunity to tell you to Read More Books. notboring.co/p/read-more-bo…
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.@reidtandy interviewed @JuddLegum about the business behind Popular Information.
They talked about paywalls, audience growth and what business skills Judd's honed along the way.
Detailed inside look
reidtandy.com/p/behind-the-s…
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