Reaching $1M in ARR, Rising Above the Competition, and Knowing Your Purpose — ft. Tyler Denk of Beehiiv

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.4 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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We’re finishing off our three part series on the future of entrepreneurship. In the episode we share today, we feature a First Time Founders episode, in which our co-host Ed chats with Tyler Denk, the cofounder and CEO of Beehiiv, a newsletter publishing and monetization platform. They discuss Tyler’s background at Morning Brew, his thoughts on selling secondary shares, and dealing with the death of one of their early employees. Music: https://www.davidcuttermusic.com / @dcuttermusic Subscribe to No Mercy / No Malice Buy "The Algebra of Wealth," out now. Follow the podcast across socials @profgpod: Instagram Threads X Reddit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.0	minutes at mercury.com. Welcome to another episode of the PropG Pod. In today's episode we finish
0:40.0	our special three-part series covering the future of entrepreneurship.
0:43.7	In last week's episode we answered your questions about life after a startup exit and
0:47.4	whether to pursue an MBA.
0:51.2	I remember taking a long walk on the beach when I sold my company and I'm like, okay, that's it.
0:57.0	There's no, I'm done.
0:58.0	And I remember thinking, does it feel different?
1:01.0	And it wasn't that it was like a sensation or a high it was just a bit of a
1:05.4	feeling of like an absence of anxiety and and a feeling quite frankly of pride
1:11.2	I felt really good about the people I'd worked with and I felt good
1:14.3	about myself.
1:16.8	Will an MBA make you a great entrepreneur?
1:18.6	No.
1:19.6	So just divorce your kind of aspirations about being an entrepreneur and say, do I want the skills and the
1:24.6	experience that an MBA offers? And then if you decide to be an entrepreneur, great.
1:37.4	Today we will be featuring an episode from one of our newer shows, First Time Founders with Ed Elson, every first Sunday of the month at interviews, you guessed it,
1:41.4	First Time Founders. In the episode we share today, Ed speaks with Ed interviews, you guessed it, first-time founders.
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