86: From scaling Morning Brew to building Newsletter Platform | Tyler Denk, CEO of beehiiv

Published: March 4, 2023, 10:55 a.m.

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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.

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SPONSORS

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BridgeUp: DM me on Twitter to raise $100,000+ in non-dilutive capital

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Listnr: https://listnr.tech/?via=prashant

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Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/

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Recast: https://recast.studio?fpr=prashant and use code BMS05 for 5% discount

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GUEST LINKS

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tylerdenk_/

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/denk_tweets

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CONNECT 

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Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga 

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Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots

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OUTLINE 

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(0:00) - Building startup in college

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(4:57) - Dropping Big 4 consulting firm to join Morning Brew

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(9:05) - Early success of Morning Brew

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(10:40) - Sending newsletter from bars & games

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(14:31) - Lessons from growing newsletter to 3M subs

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(17:42) - Economics of newsletter 

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(20:38) - The Hustle & competition

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(22:28) - Morning Brew's world-class Referral Program

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(27:25) - Product Management lessons from Google 

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(36:10) - Origin story of beehiiv

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(41:28) - Why email newsletter is a great business?

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(50:37) - Growth channels 

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(53:28) - Taking ad-share away from Facebook and Google

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(56:05) - Homegrown Success Story: Milkroad.com

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(58:01) - Fundraising

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(58:55) - Web3

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TOP EPISODES

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77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi] 

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75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread

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74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust

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68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast 

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62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]

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Past 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.

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