# every: people

> dan shipper and the people around every — who they are, what they wrote, and what they believe.

## the people

- dan shipper (founder, danshipper): cofounder and ceo. princeton, nj; wrote a 100-page novel in third grade, learned to code in fifth to build 'megasoft,' sold blackberry and iphone apps in high school. upenn philosophy 2014; built and sold firefly to pegasystems ($2.5m) out of his dorm room; wilderness years of novels and angel checks; then superorganizers — 'the newsletter was the audience research for the software company.' calls himself 'a writer who also likes to build businesses.' (sources: [age 20, philosophy major, princeton nj, wheremyfriendsbe 40k](https://www.businessinsider.com/startups-are-flinging-job-offers-at-dan-shipper-but-the-20-year-old-philosphy-major-rould-rather-stay-at-upenn-2012-5), [graduated may 18, flew to boston to close](https://www.businessinsider.com/firefly-gets-acquired-by-pegasus-2014-6), [mancrosoft/doors](https://mixergy.com/interviews/dan-shipper-firefly-interview/), [im a writer](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/admitting-what-is-obvious), [nj childhood, megasoft, $2m round, $1m arr jun 2025, brooklyn office, 14 staff](https://mercury.com/blog/what-comes-next-dan-shipper-every), [kate/evan/brandon hires](https://every.to/on-every/every-s-master-plan))
- nathan baschez (co-founder, nbaschez): cofounder — substack's first employee and vp product, co-creator of product hunt, founder of hardbound, ex-gimlet. wrote divinations; co-hosted means of creation with li jin. built lex inside every on nights and weekends, then spun it out in august 2023 as its ceo with a $2.75m true ventures seed. every materials still call him cofounder. (sources: [cofounder and ceo of lex… first employee at substack, co-created product hunt](https://every.to/@nbaschez), [lex spinout](https://every.to/on-every/we-re-spinning-out-lex), [tc coverage](https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/23/lex-ai-writing-tool-seed-round/), [olark #2 → ga → hardbound → substack first employee/vp product](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbashaw))
- kate lee (team): editor in chief since october 2023 — ex-publisher of stripe press (and increment), first head of content at medium, former icm literary agent. on the pre-kate churn: 'editor in chief at every was like defense against the dark arts at hogwarts.' the copy-editing agent trained on 30,000 of her edits is every's most-quoted internal tool. (sources: [eic+gm](https://every.to/news/kate-lee-joins-every-as-editor-in-chief), [eic+gm](https://every.to/news/kate-lee-joins-every-as-editor-in-chief), [defense against the dark arts churn quote](https://every.to/podcast/transcript-how-every-builds-a-writing-team-in-the-age-of-ai), [kate lee copy-edit agent (30k edits)](https://www.platformer.news/every-dan-shipper-interview-ai-writing/))
- brandon gell (team): coo and head of studio — dan's longtime friend; founded and sold clyde (raised $50m+) before joining as every's first entrepreneur-in-residence in 2024. the eir model is his: the studio ships the apps, the consulting arm monetizes the expertise. (sources: [first eir](https://every.to/on-every/brandon-gell-joins-every-as-our-first-entrepreneur-in-residence), [clyde jan 2017–jan 2024](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandongell), [studio launch](https://every.to/on-every/introducing-every-studio), [consulting arm](https://every.to/on-every/introducing-every-consulting))
- evan armstrong (team, evanarmstrong): lead writer 2021–2025 — took over napkin math from adam keesling via a modest acquihire, famously published his every contract, wrote ~500,000 words, then left to found the leverage ('as an equity holder, i certainly hope so'). the columnist-retention problem in one person. (sources: [published his contract](https://every.to/napkin-math/am-i-getting-ripped-off-writing-at-every), [dan intro verbatim](https://every.to/napkin-math/the-leverage), [100k+ subs and millions in revenue at every](https://howimakemoneywriting.substack.com/p/interview-112-how-evan-armstrong), [adam→evan](https://every.to/napkin-math/announcing-napkin-math-fiscal-year-2021))
- kieran klaassen (team): gm of cora — built the email assistant's mvp in a night after a call with gell; coined 'compound engineering,' the every workflow where each agent task makes the system smarter. 'how i use claude code to ship like a team of five' is the source-code flagship. (sources: [cora origin: summer-2024 eir mvp-in-a-night](https://every.to/podcast/an-inside-look-at-building-an-email-client-in-three-months), [kieran: 100% ai-written prs](https://every.to/source-code/how-i-use-claude-code-to-ship-like-a-team-of-five-6f23f136-52ab-455f-a997-101c071613aa), [teams that dont write code](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/compound-engineering-how-every-codes-with-agents), [full current roster](https://every.to/team))
- naveen naidu (team): gm of monologue — built the dictation app's first version in a single weekend because existing ones 'aren't quite right'; founder of incubator zeitalabs. monologue did ~7,000 dictations a day at launch. (sources: [naveen naidu gm](https://every.to/on-every/introducing-monologue-effortless-voice-dictation), [pre-launch traction](https://every.to/podcast/he-got-thousands-of-users-before-his-app-even-launched), [naveen/monologue weekend build](https://mixergy.com/interviews/how-dan-shipper-uses-ai-to-build-artisanal-ai-apps/))
- danny aziz (team): founding engineer of general collaboration; joined ~november 2024 as gm of spiral, leaving a $200k salary — then rebuilt spiral v3 essentially alone with claude code and droid. the current team page lists marcus moretti in the seat; the handoff is unverified. (sources: [studio launch](https://every.to/on-every/introducing-every-studio), [danny azizs story](https://every.to/source-code/i-left-my-job-to-run-an-ai-wrapper-at-every), [danny aziz solo-engineer build](https://every.to/on-every/introducing-spiral-v3-an-ai-writing-partner-with-taste), [full current roster](https://every.to/team))
- yash poojary (team): gm of sparkle, then applied ai engineer — rewrote the electron codebase in swift in 14 days with ai after the codebase 'passed through four engineers.' came through the gumroad community; previously built a top-10 mac menu-bar app. (sources: [sparkle search beta](https://every.to/source-code/i-inherited-a-broken-app-and-made-it-mine), [swift rebuild account (referenced)](https://every.to/source-code/i-rebuilt-sparkle-in-14-days-with-ai), [older team state (danny aziz gm spiral](https://www.everytang.com/team.html))
- lucas crespo (team): creative lead 2022–2026 — the art director who built every's visual language and, famously, a gpt-4 digest-summarizer with zero prior programming experience. 'a founder's best friend.' left for openai's creative team. (sources: [founders best friend](https://every.to/podcast/an-inside-look-at-every-s-design-philosophy), [de-risked content taxonomy](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/we-re-building-ai-into-our-media-business), [de-risked content taxonomy](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/we-re-building-ai-into-our-media-business))
- the writer-collective bench (team): the 2020–21 bundle roster: li jin (means of creation), tiago forte (praxis), nat eliason (almanack), jerry colonna (ask jerry), rachel jepsen (the long conversation), fadeke adegbuyi (cybernaut), adam keesling (napkin math), chris bosh (the last chip). most titles wound down as the collective became a branded publication. (sources: [everything→every](https://every.to/letter), [40k+ subs](https://web.archive.org/web/20211226110838/https://every.to/), [fadeke adegbuyis internet-culture newsletter](https://every.to/cybernaut/), [tanay jaipuria crypto column in bundle](https://every.to/almanack/olympus-dao), [rachel jepsen](https://every.to/the-long-conversation))
- the current roster (team): ~15 fte in late 2025 growing toward 30: arielle shipper (head of operations, dan's sister, ex-donut coo), austin tedesco (head of growth, ex-substack), natalia quintero (head of consulting), mike taylor (head of evals, o'reilly prompt-engineering coauthor), willie williams (head of platform), katie parrott (working overtime), jack cheng (senior editor, novelist), kaushik viswanath (managing editor), marcus moretti (gm spiral). (sources: [full current roster](https://every.to/team), [full current roster](https://every.to/team), [sister dynamic](https://every.to/p/our-ai-costs-jumped-230-percent-i-m-not-setting-token-budgets-yet), [ex-substack biz-dev head](https://every.to/on-every/austin-tedesco-joins-every-as-head-of-growth), [katie parrott quote](https://blog.annabyang.com/ai-writing-voice-system/))

## writings

- 2011–2016 — the dorm-room blog (post, dan, danshipper.com): the danshipper.com archive — 109 posts of building and selling a startup from a dorm room, in public: 'what i learned bootstrapping a 6-figure business from school,' 'interviewing at y combinator,' 'i am a terrible programmer.' [source](https://danshipper.com)
- 2019–2022 — superorganizers (essay, dan, every): the interview series that started it — 'how to make yourself into a learning machine' (simon eskildsen), 'the man who reads 1,000 articles a day,' 'the fall of roam.' audience research disguised as a newsletter.
- 2020 — bundle magic (essay, nathan, divinations): nathan's bundle thesis — bundling recaptures the wasted demand of casual fans; spotify the bundler exemplar, substack the unbundler. the economic theory under the everything bundle. [source](https://every.to/divinations/bundle-magic-379035)
  > "if people have a little demand for everything, and a lot of demand for some things, then a bundle is a great idea"
- 2021-01-25 — the founders' letter (document, dan, every): the rebrand letter — 'the everything bundle is now every': the writer-collective economics (50% profit share, advances, list portability), the substack exit, the bedrock pre-seed, 2,400 paying subscribers. [source](https://every.to/letter)
- 2021 — am i getting ripped off (essay, evan, every): 'am i getting ripped off writing at every' — evan armstrong publishes his contract and a financial model of the deal; the rare case where the economics of a writer collective were audited in public by the writer.
- 2022-11-10 — ai and the age of the individual (essay, dan, chain of thought): 'ai and the age of the individual' — written weeks before chatgpt: ai pushes the cost of intelligence toward zero and opens domains to individuals and small teams. the pivot essay.
  > "going back will feel like trying to hike a mountain in high heels"
- 2023-01 — the gpt-3 journal experiments (essay, dan, chain of thought): the january 2023 gpt-3 experiments — 'the end of organizing,' 'gpt-3 is the best journal i've ever used,' 'can gpt-3 explain my past and tell my future?' ten years of journal entries loaded into the model.
- 2023-02-08 — the lenny bot (post, dan, chain of thought): 'how to build a chatbot with gpt-3' — the lenny bot over rachitsky's archive; lenny's highest-traffic day ever, ~3,000 users day one, ~2% day-two retention. the honest-metrics follow-up is the tell. [source](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/how-to-build-a-chatbot-with-gpt-3)
- 2023-05-04 — ai is transforming media forever (essay, dan, chain of thought): 'ai is transforming media forever, here's how' — catalogs the de-risked content strategies and notes lucas crespo's gpt-4 digest bot 'built in python and deployed on heroku in two days… zero prior programming experience.' the essay that seeded spiral.
- 2023-08-22 — the lex spinout post (document, nathan, on every): 'how we became every' — the full origin narrative (the thanksgiving call, 'i need more soul,' the bundle hack) plus the spinout rationale: venture-scale software held back inside a media company. [source](https://every.to/on-every/we-re-spinning-out-lex)
- 2023-09-07 — admitting what is obvious (essay, dan, chain of thought): 'admitting what is obvious' — the identity reclassification after the hard summer: role models bill simmons, sam harris, nate silver, the green brothers; 'billions of dollars in value are wasted every year by people doing the high-status thing.'
  > "i'm not a founder who also likes to write. i'm a writer who also likes to build businesses"
- 2024-01-19 — the allocation economy (essay, dan, chain of thought): 'the knowledge economy is over. welcome to the allocation economy' — the most-cited every framework: judged on how well you allocate and manage resources, not what you know. coins 'model manager.' [source](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/the-knowledge-economy-is-over-welcome-to-the-allocation-economy)
  > "we'll go from makers to managers, from doing the work to learning how to allocate resources"
- 2024-07-18 — every's master plan (document, dan, on every): 'every's master plan' — the turnaround memo: the hard summer, the solo-founder reset, writing reframed as the core process. names the team that ran it. [source](https://every.to/on-every/every-s-master-plan)
  > "the core process by which everything else in the business worked"
- 2024-09-06 — why generalists own the future (essay, dan, chain of thought): 'why generalists own the future' — 'it's better to know a little about a lot than a lot about a little.' the allocation economy's staffing corollary.
- 2025-05-21 — the sip seed post (document, dan, on every): 'so, we raised some money' — the $2m drawdown seed co-led by hoffman and startingline; 'call it a sip seed round.' a media-priced round for a company that keeps being weird on purpose. [source](https://every.to/on-every/so-we-raised-some-money)
- 2025-07 — toward a definition of agi (essay, dan, chain of thought): 'toward a definition of agi' — the shutdown-value test; 'the magic minimum for ai agents' in the same month. the essay line that travels furthest.
  > "agi is intelligence too valuable to shut off"
- 2025-09-26 — every's master plan: part ii (document, dan, on every): 'every's master plan: part ii' — the operating loop made explicit: ~$1.2m arr, ~15% mom growth, consulting pacing $1–2m, < $2m raised. 'when software becomes cheap to build, ecosystems are the edge.' [source](https://every.to/on-every/every-s-master-plan-part-ii)
  > "we live in the future. we write what we see. we build what's missing. we teach what works."
- 2025-10 — seeing like a language model (book, dan, chain of thought): the book series — 'i'm writing a book about the worldview i've developed by writing, coding, and living with ai,' serialized as 'seeing like a language model' chapters through october 2025.
- 2025-12-11 — compound engineering (essay, kieran, chain of thought): 'compound engineering: how every codes with agents' — a four-step engineering process for software teams that don't write code; shipped as a claude code plugin replicating every's internal workflow.
- 2026-01-09 — agent-native architectures (essay, dan, every): 'agent-native architectures: how to build apps after the end of code' — features written in english, not code; anthropic's mike krieger reportedly uses the framing. [source](https://every.to/guides/agent-native)
- 2026-03-20 — the proof postmortem (essay, dan, every): 'when your vibe coded app goes viral—and then goes down' — proof went viral, fell over under load, and the postmortem became the content. the coding-in-public ethos at its most honest.
- 2026-05-21 — after automation (essay, dan, every): 'after automation' — the ~8,000-word manifesto: agents write the code, draft the emails, handle support; yet every grew 4→30 humans since gpt-3 and there's more human work than ever. 'don't do your work. tend your loop.'
  > "ai progress creates more work for humans, not less"
- 2023– — ai & i (podcast, dan, ai & i): ai & i — the twice-weekly show where guests screen-share their actual chat histories: reid hoffman, tyler cowen, kevin kelly, dwarkesh patel, sarah tavel, mike krieger, guillermo rauch, claire vo, and the internal roster. [source](https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/ai-i/id1719789201)
- 2025– — vibe check (post, dan, every): vibe check — day-zero hands-on reviews of frontier models under early access: o3, codex, gpt-5, sonnet 4.5, opus 4.5, cursor 3.0, fable. the franchise that requires lab relationships.
- 2020–2023 — divinations (essay, nathan, divinations): divinations — business strategy explainers (five forces, quibi, sonos, roam) that became the bundle's analytical spine; ends when nathan leaves for lex.
- 2020–2021 — means of creation (podcast, nathan, every): means of creation — the weekly live show on the passion economy with li jin; moved out of the every bundle to its own substack in late 2021 when her career turned toward variant fund.
- 2021–2025 — napkin math (essay, evan, napkin math): napkin math — the finance and unit-economics column handed from adam keesling to evan armstrong; ~20k readers and 500k+ post views by early 2022, sponsorships from masterworks and axios. ended with his 2025 departure.

## controversies

- 2025 — everyone keeps leaving: the columnist-retention pattern — the people who build gravity inside every keep leaving with it: keesling, li jin, fadeke, nathan to lex, evan to the leverage. the list-portability promise made leaving easier by design. reaction: read either as the model's failure or its honest feature — every brands the departures as incubation, critics call it the magazine problem it was supposed to solve. (sources: [dan intro verbatim](https://every.to/napkin-math/the-leverage), [lex spinout](https://every.to/on-every/we-re-spinning-out-lex), [newsletter bundles dont work](https://www.elysian.press/p/newsletter-bundles-dont-work), [cybernaut lead apr 2021–mar 2023](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fadekeadegbuyi))

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