The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

the business you're building, the team you're building, the way you're operating is the very bleeding edge of how companies are trying to operate in this AI era. We have uh head of AI operations. She's just constantly like building prompts and building workflows so that I and everyone else on the team are just automating as much as possible. What are some things that you believe about AI that most people don't Hate The headlines that are like entry level jobs are taken away by AI. Whenever I see a kid with ChatGPT, I'm like, holy shit, they're gonna go so much faster than any other person that I've worked with. We have this guy, he made like a year's worth of progress in like two months because every time I sat down with him and told him, Okay, here's how you tell a story, here's how you think about a headline, like he recorded all of it, put it into a prompt, and he never made the same mistake twice. this sense. We're getting to a place where you don't have to write any code like a product team not writing code at all. No one is manually coding anymore. Organizations like ours, people who are playing at the edge, we're doing things that in like three years everybody else is gonna be doing. Today, my guest is Dan Shipper. Dan is the co-founder and CEO of Every, which is a company that is at the very bleeding edge of what is possible with AI.

Their team of just fifteen employees has built and shipped four different products. They publish a daily newsletter. And they have a consulting arm that helps companies adopt the latest AI best practices. On their product team, their engineers don't handwrite a single line of code, and instead use an arsenal of agents who help them craft requirements and build their products. Their editorial arm uses AI to publish better work faster. And they even have a person whose entire job is to help every employee at the company become more efficient using the latest AI workflows. In our conversation, Dan shares a bunch of tactics that they use internally to increase the leverage of their own employees, his personal AI tool stack.

The one predictor that he's found for whether a company will successfully find huge productivity gains through AI, how he's building his company in a really unique way, a bunch of predictions for where AI is going. And so much more. If you enjoy this podcast, don't forget to subscribe and follow it in your favorite podcasting app or YouTube. And also if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a bunch of amazing products for free for one year. including superhuman linear notion perplexity bolt granola and more Check it out at Lenny's Newsletter.com and click bundle.

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