Insight
Shipper: Driving is easier to automate than knowledge work because roads are static
“The difference is that the roads, even though things are complex and dynamic and all that kind of stuff on the road, the roads are the same. Like that's the same roads. You're getting from point A to point B and the way that that works, like you, there's a zil…”
Opinion
Shipper: Claude Code represents the future of programming by eliminating code editors
“Over the summer, I started using cloud code and I was like, wow, this is the future of programming. And they did something really special here, which is they just eliminated the text editor. Like you don't need that. You don't need the code editor. You just ne…”
Opinion
Shipper: Current AI writing tools fail to interview users first
“And I think no AI tool really is doing that because they're very focused on just give me an answer right now.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dan Shipper: Big opportunity will come from unbundling ChatGPT into purpose-built apps
“And I think there's something very similar happening and going to happen with AI is people have to use ChatGPT and like realize that this new sort of workflow is possible. And then there will be a big opportunity to unbundle those workflows into purpose-built …”
Insight
Shipper: Software is now content because building apps has become so cheap
“I think that software is now content. It's like so cheap to make that it's sort of like building an app is sort of like writing an essay or tweeting.”
Disclosure
Shipper: Every raised $2M 'sip seed' from Reid Hoffman, Starting Line
“We raised 600 K in 2020, which is when we started the business. And then we just raised another round From Reed Hoffman and starting line DC. And that was a two million dollar round, but we raised it as what I call a sip seed round. So they have committed up t…”
Disclosure
Shipper: Every probably will not raise a standard VC Series A
“And I think the investors, this, in this round also are aware that we're probably not going to go raise, you know, ten million ten million dollar series A from Sequoia or whatever. I don't even know if ten million, maybe ten million is too small now for a seri…”
Disclosure
Shipper: Every requires an AI-first approach across all roles
“We're all using AI to do everything from coding to writing to editing to design to marketing, all that stuff. And if you're not doing it with AI first, you're kind of weird which I think is the reverse of how things are in pretty much every other company.”
Insight
Shipper: Prompting LLMs on internal meeting transcripts generates honest company handbooks
“I have a recipe on there that I made that I really liked it, that was really cool, which is, Go through all of my internal meetings and write our company handbook from what you see. And I want you to capture all of the unspoken ways that every works as a compa…”
Insight
Shipper: Effective ghostwriters interview subjects instead of instantly generating output
“Good ghost writers. When you say, Hey, I want you to tweet about this or blog post about this ghost, ghost writers. Don't go ahead and say, great. I did it. Here it is. What they do is they say, okay, well, what was interesting to you about this article? What …”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shipper: Claude is near capable of dynamic agentic copy editing via Notion
“Claude is very, very good right now at, you know, longer horizon agentic tasks. And so I would, And it now also has file use. So I would bet that we're getting close to, if not currently at a place where if you pointed it at a notion page and said, read the no…”
Insight
Shipper: AI evaluations smuggle in human intelligence through task setup
“And to do all of the things you need to do in order to set up the eval is a job. And so the eval is what I'm saying is smuggling a lot of human intelligence into it because in order to take a like complex and dynamic activity, like doing a job and turn it into…”
Disclosure
Dan Shipper: Every generates $1.3M ARR across nearly 7,000 paid subscribers
“I can tell you we have about almost 7000 paid subscribers across all the apps in the media. And altogether we do about like 1.3 million in ARR. Growing really fast. We grew ARR 45% this quarter.”
Assertion Supported
Dan Shipper: OpenAI awarded Every a plaque for processing 10 billion tokens
“Like yesterday I was at Dev Day, OpenAI Dev Day, and I got this like cool plaque that was like, you've processed ten billion tokens through, through OpenAI, which is, it was so cool.”
Disclosure
Shipper: Every uses Claude Projects for developmental and copy editing
“Basically we have a cloud project with all of this stuff in it. That can do copy editing, can do developmental editing. So like helping you figure out like which ideas are interesting and why, or where's the hook for the article, that kind of stuff.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shipper: Every employs 15 to 20 full-time staff across six business lines
“We are more than 10 people. We are about 15, between 15 and twenty-ish, it's a little hard to tell, full-time. We have six business lines now, so yes, a lot.”
Assertion Partly supported
Dan Shipper: GPT-4 and Claude Opus beat human experts in blindly judged benchmarks
“They found that GPT-V is better than experts, like blindly judged better than experts at completing these tasks like 40% of the time, and I think Claude Opus is at 40, at 49%”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dan Shipper: Monologue's initial version was built over a single weekend
“Naveen, who's the GM of Monologue, just was like, I don't know. I like, I want an invitation app. The ones that I, the ones that I've been using, like aren't quite right for me. And he just like built it over a weekend and then demoed it and everyone was like,…”
Opinion
Shipper: ChatGPT excels at translating dense philosophical texts into plain English
“And I think Chad DBT does a really good job of translating, again, the different forms of English, translating from Kierkegaard's he calls it dialectical algebra, Kierkegaard's dialectical algebra to, like, normal, normal people speak, and that helps me get mu…”
