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Dan Shipper

CEO & Co-Founder @ Every

Runs Every, an AI-native media company. Writes Chain of Thought and hosts the AI & I podcast.

β€œ5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code, covering AI product work, engineering tradeoffs, and product design.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
EveryCo-Founder & CEO2020-present
Pega (via Firefly acquisition)Product Manager2014-~2016
Firefly (acquired by Pega)Co-Founder2011-2014

Episodes (1)

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β€œYes, exactly. And it can do that for long amounts of time without going off the rails.”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

9:14
β€œSomething that I've done a lot, so I'm a writer for a lot of my job. And I know you're going to ask me about books I love, so I'm going to give you a sneak peek, which is I love War and Peace. I just ...”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

9:52
β€œHot take, I think War and Peace is better than Anna Karenina, especially for a tech person. But they're both good.”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

11:52
β€œSame thing for people inside of Every, no one is manually coding anymore.”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

14:27
β€œIt's never waiting for you to be like, "Okay, next thing." It'll always respond to you when you're like, "Okay, next thing." But it's off just essentially living its life like a teenager and that is p...”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

17:41
β€œI think that's a good definition of AGI.”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

17:56
β€œEveryone asks that because it's a very weird shape of a company. You can actually see other companies that have this shape from earlier eras, but it's less common. It doesn't make as much sense.”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

26:20
β€œWe do a lot of... For example, whenever OpenAI or Anthropic drop a new model, we get our hands on it early, and then we get to play with it and write about it, which it's my ideal job. I love it. It's...”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

27:00
β€œI don't if I can curse on this podcast, but-”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

27:14
β€œSo you get a really inside look into how is this stuff being built from people who are actually using it every day. And the suite of apps that we have, one's called Cora. We just launched Cora publicl...”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

28:27
β€œBut I've been blabbering for a while, so I'll stop there.”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

29:21
β€œThere's always a trick with that, where it's like you have to make sure it gets used. So it's basically you're developing little applications internally, but if you're good at making applications peop...”
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The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

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