# Dan Shipper

> Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a New York-based applied AI lab that publishes a daily newsletter read by more than 130,000 builders and ships a bundle of AI software products. He writes Chain of Thought, a weekly column on how AI reshapes work and thinking, and hosts the AI & I podcast. A philosophy major who sold his first company before graduating from Penn, Shipper has become one of the most-read chroniclers of the AI era, arguing that the line between writer and builder is dissolving.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Every Inc.
- **Organizations:** Every Inc., Firefly (co-browsing software, acquired), Pegasystems
- **From:** New Jersey, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Built and sold Firefly to Pegasystems before graduating college, Founded Every, an applied AI lab with a 130,000+ reader daily newsletter, Writes Chain of Thought, a weekly AI column read by 130,000+ people

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Begins publishing online, documenting everything he builds
- **teens** — Builds and sells BlackBerry and iPhone apps, self-funding college
- **2012** — Co-founds Firefly, a co-browsing customer-support software company, while a student at Penn
- **2014** — Sells Firefly to Pegasystems; flies from graduation to Boston to close the deal
- **2019-2020** — Co-founds Every with Nathan Baschez as a bundle of business newsletters
- **2020-present** — Builds Every into an applied AI lab shipping software products
- **2025** — Raises a ~$2M round led by Reid Hoffman; Every reaches roughly $1M ARR

## Achievements

- Built and sold Firefly to Pegasystems before graduating college
- Founded Every, an applied AI lab with a 130,000+ reader daily newsletter
- Writes Chain of Thought, a weekly AI column read by 130,000+ people
- Hosts the AI & I podcast featuring leading AI practitioners
- Shipped a suite of AI products: Cora, Sparkle, Spiral, Monologue, Proof, Plus One
- Raised seed funding from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman
- Featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Axios, TED, and Lenny's Podcast

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Every closed a ~$2 million round led by Reid Hoffman
- **2025-06** — Every reported roughly $1M ARR with a small full-time and contract team
- **2025-08** — Featured on Lenny's Podcast describing Every as an AI-native startup with five products and code written almost entirely by AI

## Links

- Website: https://danshipper.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danshipper
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/danshipper
- GitHub: https://github.com/dshipper
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkXOudImoI0
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danshipper/

---

Profile page: https://yespress.io/dan-shipper
Published by YesPress — https://yespress.io
Last updated: 2026-06-24