#035 - Tyler Denk on Creators, Ambition, Uniqueness, & Choosing the More Difficult Path

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Tyler Denk is the co-founder and CEO of newsletter platform Beehiiv, and was the second employee at Morning Brew. We talk about newsletters, creators, running a startup, standing out, taking the path less traveled, ambition, authenticity, and uniqueness.

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(00:46) Why build a newsletter platform & not another Morning Brew-like newsletter (01:48) VC, bootstrapping, and being able to focus on building (05:00) Market insights the incumbents didn’t have (07:35) Biggest problems for creators today across creation, distribution, and monetization (09:41) Being adaptable in supporting creators (13:16) The biggest problems in podcasting (16:53) Quality, trust, entertainment & analysis as a moat for creators in the age of AI (19:22) Individuals vs institutions (21:28) Email allows you to own distribution (25:09) Overlooked or under-appreciated parts of being a CEO (27:59) Ride the wave of hunger & ambition while you’re young & free (32:18) Is passion portable & the importance of luck and opportunity (34:18) Being in over your head & choosing the more difficult path (38:32) Comfort vs. stress (41:59) Credentialism vs. proof of work (45:54) The importance of ignorance & naïveté (48:15) Retaining authenticity & getting in the weeds (51:04) Problems in the music industry (53:08) What are you uniquely positioned to do

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Tyler’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/denk_tweets

Beehiiv: https://beehiiv.com/

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