86: From scaling Morning Brew to building Newsletter Platform | Tyler Denk, CEO of beehiiv
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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.
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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OUTLINE
(0:00) - Building startup in college
(4:57) - Dropping Big 4 consulting firm to join Morning Brew
(9:05) - Early success of Morning Brew
(10:40) - Sending newsletter from bars & games
(14:31) - Lessons from growing newsletter to 3M subs
(17:42) - Economics of newsletter
(20:38) - The Hustle & competition
(22:28) - Morning Brew's world-class Referral Program
(27:25) - Product Management lessons from Google
(36:10) - Origin story of beehiiv
(41:28) - Why email newsletter is a great business?
(50:37) - Growth channels
(53:28) - Taking ad-share away from Facebook and Google
(56:05) - Homegrown Success Story: Milkroad.com
(58:01) - Fundraising
(58:55) - Web3
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