Tyler Denk led product & growth at Morning Brew, did product stint at Google and then last year, launched beehiiv - a newsletter platform empowering creators to monetize and grow like never before.
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We talked about building startup in college, dropping Big 4 consulting firm to join Morning Brew, scaling newsletter to 3M subcribers, product management lessons from Google, launching beehiiv, why email newsletter is a great business and more.
\nSPONSORS
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\nGUEST LINKS
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\nCONNECT
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\nBillion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots
\nOUTLINE
\n(0:00) - Building startup in college
\n(4:57) - Dropping Big 4 consulting firm to join Morning Brew
\n(9:05) - Early success of Morning Brew
\n(10:40) - Sending newsletter from bars & games
\n(14:31) - Lessons from growing newsletter to 3M subs
\n(17:42) - Economics of newsletter
\n(20:38) - The Hustle & competition
\n(22:28) - Morning Brew's world-class Referral Program
\n(27:25) - Product Management lessons from Google
\n(36:10) - Origin story of beehiiv
\n(41:28) - Why email newsletter is a great business?
\n(50:37) - Growth channels
\n(53:28) - Taking ad-share away from Facebook and Google
\n(56:05) - Homegrown Success Story: Milkroad.com
\n(58:01) - Fundraising
\n(58:55) - Web3
\nTOP EPISODES
\n77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]
\n75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread
\n74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust
\n68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast
\n62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]
\nPast guests of Billion Moonshots include Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.