Tyler Denk
22 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 25, 2023 by Tyler Denk · said 32 times in 7 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Oct 25, 2023
Oct 25, 2023 bullish
Oct 25, 2023 negative
Denk: Side consulting to pay personal bills distracts founders from scaling
“I know some entrepreneurs that actually get into, like, kind of pivoting their business to do consulting as well. And they kind of phrase it as, I'll do consulting to learn about the space a bit more, but it's really kind of to pay the bills. And I think it's …”
Oct 25, 2023
Denk: Every terminated Beehiiv employee was hired via standard interviews
“Everyone that we have fired was like a, we did a few rounds of interviews, gave them an offer. I had no experience of how they handled adversity, communication, how they actually executed and did their job function in like a real setting, just in the hypotheti…”
Oct 25, 2023
Denk: Builders must endure shitty manual processes before automating
“The downside is I think as a lot of product and engineering minded people, they always want the most efficient process. And the thought of having to do something as manual as like scraping emails, sorting them into CSV, trying to find like the right newsletter…”
Oct 25, 2023 neutral
Oct 25, 2023 negative
Denk: Founders paying themselves starvation wages harms executive focus and performance
“And so what I don't believe in at all is like, hey, pay yourself nothing and really prove like you're some harder that can live off like 25,000 dollars a month. Because at the end of the day, like as an entrepreneur, You want to make sure that all of your focu…”
Oct 25, 2023 positive
Denk: Beehiiv generates $750,000 monthly revenue with 45 remote employees
“So right now we are 45 full time employees. We're totally remote. We're across eight different countries. I believe right now we are coming up on our second year anniversary since launching. So we launched November of 2021. We have, we're doing about 750,000 d…”
Oct 25, 2023
Denk: People management is harder than building software when scaling
“What you realize as you scale a company is like the actual building software and building processes is actually the easiest part of scaling a business at a point. It's the people problem of having people continue to perform at a high level, continue to execute…”
Oct 25, 2023 positive
Oct 25, 2023
Denk: Morning Brew got 10 to 15 daily inquiries about custom tech
“Every time we sent an email to a million people, we'd get 20, 30,000 responses back which is also very overwhelming, but it's an amazing touchpoint with your target readers and audience of what's working, what's not. I'd say 80% of those emails were about the …”
Oct 25, 2023 positive
Oct 25, 2023
Oct 25, 2023 negative
Denk: Hiring lower-quality engineers creates severe bandwidth drag
“It's just such a efficiency and bandwidth drag to have Quote, unquote, lower quality engineers bring down the bandwidth of the team because that requires other engineers to clean up their code or, like, have to review it even, like, more thoroughly.”
Oct 25, 2023
Tyler Denk: Beehiiv's public launch MVP had only three core features
“So RMVP was simply the most basic website builder you could possibly imagine. It does two things. It collects emails, and it posts, and it publishes all of your published posts in an archive. And then the other component is a text editor that you can send emai…”
Oct 25, 2023
Denk: Morning Brew spent four months custom-building its referral system
“When I would respond, actually, we spent like four months building this custom. There is no off the shelf solution that also showed not just interest, but like a lack of a competitor in the market that was solving that pain point.”
Oct 25, 2023
Oct 25, 2023
Oct 25, 2023 neutral
Oct 25, 2023
Mar 22, 2024
Founders should hire future entrepreneurs for their first 10 startup roles
“The first 10 employees in a startup. You should be able to look at them and say to yourself, I think this person will do incredible work for us for a number of years, but ultimately I could see them starting a company of their own.”
Mar 22, 2024
Tyler Denk proposed productizing Morning Brew's internal tools before launching beehiiv
“Something I just want to add here that's just a fun anecdote is I remember the first time that Tyler came to Austin and I, because Tyler was employee number three or four at Morning Brew, and he had been building all of our internal tools at the company. So th…”