AI & I

As a general partner at Spark Capital, Nabeel Hyatt backs just one or two companies each year.   But when he does invest, Nabeel picks winners. He was an early investor in Discord , video editor Descript , self-driving startup Cruise (acquired by General Motor for over $1 billion) , and, recently, AI note-taking app Granola .  Nabeel’s investment thesis is to look for products like the Japanese to...

Building an email client used to take many years and millions of dollars. But Every’s Kieran Klaassen built Cora —a totally new way to manage your inbox with AI—in just 3 months. He even shipped the original MVP of the product in a single day—something that just wasn’t possible before the current state of generative AI.  Now, there are almost 10,000 people on the waitlist for Cora, and we’re onboa...

AI is going to change science forever. Small scale studies will give way to large scale open data gathering efforts. We’ll shift from seeking broad general theories to making contextual predictions in individual cases. The traditional research paper will change fundamentally. That’s why I had Alice Albrecht on the show. Few people straddle the worlds of science and AI like she does: She holds a Ph...

Chris Pedregal knows how to build AI products that people love .  Chris is the cofounder and CEO of Granola , an AI-powered notepad for meetings. We use it for many of our meetings at Every—the app listens in on the conversation, transcribes it in the background, and when the meeting ends, creates automated notes and a shareable transcript for anyone who missed it. If you take notes during the mee...

Here’s the most compelling benchmark of AI progress: A task that took 60 minutes a year ago now takes 60 seconds. In January 2024, researcher Geoffrey Litt and I spent an hour coaxing ChatGPT to build a simple app on this podcast. Nearly 12 months later, Steve Krouse and I built the same app with one prompt in less than minute. Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Val Town , a cloud-based platform fo...

Over the last few months at Every, we’ve launched two new AI products with tens of thousands of users, and we’ll release a third one before the end of the year. The weird thing is: We’re a media company with less than 10 full-time employees, and we’re mostly bootstrapped. That’s not how things are supposed to work in startups. When we were first starting Every Studio six months ago, we were told a...

Everyone told Vicente Silveira that his startup—a GPT wrapper—would fail. Instead, one year later, it’s thriving—with about 500,000 registered users, nearly 3,000 paying subscribers, and over 2 million conversations in the GPT store.  Vicente is the cofounder and CEO of AI PDF , a tool to help you summarize, chat with, and organize your PDF files. When OpenAI allowed users to upload documents to C...

Prompt engineering isn’t just about telling AI to solve your problems—it’s about knowing which ones to solve.  Yet there’s a mismatch between the people who can identify the right problems—experts with deep domain knowledge—and the technical infrastructure required for developing and refining prompts. Jared Zoneraich , the cofounder and CEO of prompt engineering platform PromptLayer , is bridging...

Notion cofounder Simon Last told me everything he’s learned from integrating an AI application into a platform that has over 100 million users . Simon likes to keep a low profile, even though he’s the driving force behind Notion AI , one of the most widely scaled AI applications in the world. In this episode, we get into how AI changes the way he builds software since the days he cofounded Notion...

Union Square Ventures is building an AI operating system to support their investment team.  But it’s not what you think: It’s a constellation of AI tools that captures and synthesizes the firm's collective wisdom. It’s evolving every day, and Matt Cynamon is the mad scientist in charge Matt calls himself a “regular” at USV. In practice that means he’s responsible for running experiments with AI fo...

Yohei Nakajima⁠ leads a double life.  By day, he’s a general partner of a small venture firm, ⁠Untapped Capital⁠ .  By night, he’s one of the most prolific internet tinkerers in AI. (He also sometimes works on ⁠automating his job as a venture capitalist .) He’s the creator of BabyAGI (@babyAGI_), the first open-source autonomous agent that went viral in March 2023. Yohei has since released seven i...

Simon Eskildsen is a learning machine.  I first interviewed him in 2020 about how he leveled up from being an intern at Shopify to becoming the company’s director of production engineering by reading and applying insights from hundreds of books. A lot has changed over the last four years. Language models have made it possible to access and contextualize information faster, easier, and more cheaply...

If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!  Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT . It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe   Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper   Links to resources menti...

The Browser Company isn’t just building a browser , they’re building a formidable brand—and they’re doing it with AI.  The Browser Company has driven viral user growth , a $550 million valuation , and close to 100,000 YouTube subscribers . Its brand centers people, not products. It’s messy, authentic, and refreshing—and it seeps into everything the team does, from the job descriptions on their web...

We’re building a mini-AI media and software empire at Every.  Today on AI & I , Brandon Gell joins the show to turn the tables on me and act as podcast host to explore what we’re doing as a company, how we got here, and where we’re going. Brandon is Every’s first entrepreneur in residence, and he was the perfect person to host, because he’s one of the key reasons for our recent acceleration. B...

Alex Wieckowski is on a mission to make you fall in love with reading again—and he thinks AI can help. Alex, who writes a newsletter that captures lessons from books he’s read and tips to become a better reader, Alex & Books , is a creator with over 1 million followers across social platforms. He’s also the author of a book of quotes that will inspire you to read more, Learn to Love Reading ....

One of the most influential voices in tech explains how AI helps him write and invest. This episode is sponsored by Create. If you want to maximize your gains, both with your body and with ChatGPT, try creatinine gummies from Create. Place your order through this link to get a 30 percent discount: https://trycreate.co/products/creatine-monohydrate-gummies-270-count?discount=every24 Packy McCormick...

Keeping up with AI is Nathaniel Whittemore’s full-time job—and I spent an hour with him to understand how he does it. Nathaniel is the host of a top-ranked AI podcast on the technology charts, The AI Daily Brief, which breaks down the most important news in AI every day. He is also the founder and CEO of Superintelligent, a platform that teaches you how to use AI for work and fun through interacti...

This episode is sponsored by Command Bar, an embedded AI copilot designed to improve user experience on your web or mobile site. Find them here: https://www.commandbar.com/copilot/  Dwarkesh Patel is on a quest to know everything.  He’s using LLMs to enhance how he reads, learns, thinks, and conducts interviews.  Dwarkesh is a podcaster who’s interviewed a wide range of people, like Mark Zuckerber...

Steph Smith is the ultimate internet explorer. I spent an hour talking to her about the future of creating on the internet in the age of AI. She’s our first-ever repeat guest, and if you watch the episode you’ll see why: It’s a curious, fun, experimental romp through the best of the digital world. We try out four underrated AI products, go through a list of Steph’s favorite niche internet creators...

Dr. Bradley Love is building a tool that can predict the future. Dr. Bradley Love is transforming neuroscience research with AI. He's the creator of BrainGPT, a large language model that can predict the results of neuroscience studies—before they’re conducted. And it performs better than human experts. We spent 90 minutes exploring how AI is reshaping scientific research and our understanding of t...

Claire Vo built ChatPRD—an on-demand chief product officer powered by AI. It’s now used by over 10,000 product managers and is pulling in six figures in revenue.  The best part?  Claire has a demanding day job as the CPO at LaunchDarkly. So she built all of ChatPRD herself—over the weekend—with AI.  I sat down with Claire to talk about how ChatPRD works, how she built it as a side hustle using AI,...

An interview with best-selling sci-fi novelist Robin Sloan One of my favorite fiction writers, New York Times best-selling author Robin Sloan , just wrote the first novel I’ve seen that’s inspired by LLMs. The book is called Moonbound , and Robin originally wanted to write it with language models. He tried doing this in 2016 with a rudimentary model he built himself, and more recently with commerc...

We use it to find bestselling author Steven Berlin Johnson’s next project. I sat down with bestselling author Steven Johnson to see if we could come up with a concept for his next project—using AI. The results were amazing. We loaded 200,000 words of NASA transcripts and all of Steven’s reading notes since 1999 into NotebookLM, Google’s personalized research assistant. We wanted to see if it could...

Learn how the smartest people in the world are using AI to think, create, and relate. Each week I interview founders, filmmakers, writers, investors, and others about how they use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney in their work and in their lives. We screen-share through their historical chats and then experiment with AI live on the show. Join us to discover how AI is changing how we t...