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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(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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