Lenny Distilled

Dan Shipper

Co-founder and CEO, Every

8 quotes across 1 episode

The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code

There are these things that were historically really expensive that only rich people or big companies could buy... becoming orders of magnitude cheaper so that everyone can use them.

He made a year's worth of progress in 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,' he recorded all of it, put it into a prompt, and he never made the same mistake twice.

Organizations like ours, people who are playing at the edge, we're doing things that, in three years, everybody else is going to be doing.

We have a head of AI operations. She's just constantly building prompts and building workflows that I and everyone else on the team are just automating as much as possible.

The number one predictor is, 'Does the CEO use ChatGPT?' If the CEO is in it all the time, being like, 'This is the coolest thing,' everybody else is going to start doing it.

Management skills are not broadly distributed, because it's very expensive... It's now going to be much cheaper to manage, so more people are going to have to do it.

You can tell how much better AI is getting by how long a leash you can give it to do work.