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Nathan Barry

Founder & CEO, Kit · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nathan Barry is best known for bootstrapping Kit (formerly ConvertKit), an email marketing platform designed for online creators that grew past $40 million in annual recurring revenue. Before scaling the software company, he authored books including Authority, Designing Web Applications, and The App Design Handbook, and currently hosts The Nathan Barry Show.

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2 assertions · 4 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Nathan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Everything Nathan Barry said on BigDeal that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Barry: Moving to your niche's geographic hub significantly accelerates startup success
“So I would definitely recommend right in this world, right? Of someone starting as a creator or building a startup. Absolutely. Go move to wherever the hub of that, of your niche is. It could be for three months or it could be, you know, three or five years an…”
Nathan Barry Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 48:33 “You Need to MOVE OUT of your Hometown to get Rich” (feat. Rob Abasolo and Nathan Barry)
Assertion Partly supported
Barry: ConvertKit generates $40M ARR and sends 2.5B monthly emails
“We have forty million a year in revenue growing pretty fast, about 25, 30% a year. Let's see, 500,000. Free users, 50,000 paying customers. We send two and a half billion emails on behalf of creators every single month. And a team of 80 people spread all aroun…”
Nathan Barry Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 41:33 “You Need to MOVE OUT of your Hometown to get Rich” (feat. Rob Abasolo and Nathan Barry)
Insight
Barry: Exposing kids to global wealth disparities teaches genuine gratitude
“It's not that by staying at a Motel Six or, you know, a Holiday Inn versus the Four Seasons, that's what's going to make them grateful for what they have in the world. It's really, like, get out and show them, like, take them to Thailand, take them to, you kno…”
Nathan Barry Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 46:17 “You Need to MOVE OUT of your Hometown to get Rich” (feat. Rob Abasolo and Nathan Barry)
Insight
Barry: Execute heads-down so high-value people seek out your meetings instead
“What I love is this idea of like being heads down hermit execute mode and then resurfacing and having a body of work so that people want to connect with me, right? Cause I've built a company to this level. People will want to take my meetings. And then I'm off…”
Nathan Barry Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 49:59 “You Need to MOVE OUT of your Hometown to get Rich” (feat. Rob Abasolo and Nathan Barry)
Insight
Barry: Leverage is not inherently good; it neutrally magnifies existing outcomes
“One thing I want to point out is leverage is not good or bad. Everyone talks about it like it's good. It's not. It is a neutral force. It just magnifies whatever else is happening.”
Nathan Barry Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 59:58 “You Need to MOVE OUT of your Hometown to get Rich” (feat. Rob Abasolo and Nathan Barry)
Assertion Partly supported
Barry: Mark Sisson built and sold Primal Kitchen for $200M using email
“And so he ends up starting Primal Kitchen. He builds it, uses the email list to kickstart it and launch all of that. And then in two years, he sells it to Kraft Foods for two hundred million dollars”
Nathan Barry Apr 30, 2024 ▶ 1:06:50 “You Need to MOVE OUT of your Hometown to get Rich” (feat. Rob Abasolo and Nathan Barry)

The other half of the tape: Nathan Barry's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 2 times in 2 episodes on BigDeal. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about Nathan Barry, by other people (1)

Assertion Partly supported
Sanchez: ConvertKit founder Nathan Barry built multimillion net worth in Iowa
“Nathan Berry, created a company called ConvertKit, never left his hometown in Iowa, never went to school outside of Iowa, built his business in Iowa, is worth millions.”
Codie Sanchez Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 34:43 The Harsh Truth: Why You’ll NEVER Make Money!

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
“You Need to MOVE OUT of your Hometown to get Rich” (feat. Rob Abasolo and Nathan Barry) Apr 30, 2024 17m
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