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VC Minute: Get someone in the pool.
Rich Maloy turns seed fundraising into a pool party: everyone is interested, nobody wants to jump first. VC Minute gives founders short lessons in getting from polite interest to an actual decision.
The Rundown AI sells you back your morning
A five-minute email became an AI media and training business. Its cleverest move was turning the question “What happened?” into “What can I do with it?”
Venture Unlocked opens the other side of the table
Every venture capitalist needs capital, too. Samir Kaji’s podcast and newsletter examine the less glamorous decisions that turn an investor into a fund manager.
Everyday AI makes learning a daily habit
Jordan Wilson built a media and consulting company around a simple invitation: watch AI work, ask a question, then try it yourself. The interesting part is what happens after the broadcast.
Big Technology. A better question.
Alex Kantrowitz built a podcast around access to Silicon Valley. Its more interesting business is giving the rest of us a way into the conversation.
The Marketing Millennials made the company page worth following
Daniel Murray went looking for podcast guests. He built a marketing media business by giving people something they wanted before asking them for anything.
The AI Daily Brief makes room to think
Nathaniel Whittemore built an AI news business around a daily listening habit. Its revealing move was deciding which news product to stop making.
Latent Space gave AI builders a place to belong.
A newsletter became a meeting place for people turning AI models into working software. Now Latent Space faces the same problem as its readers: how to scale without losing what made it useful.
Build a business. Keep your life.
The Bootstrapped Founder turns Arvid Kahl’s experience of building and selling a SaaS into a practical education business. Its most useful lesson is how much success can cost the person doing the succeeding.
MSME AFRICA took eight months to earn $100. Then it got useful.
A slow start in advertising pushed this Nigerian business publisher to rethink how it served entrepreneurs. The result connects funding alerts, practical courses and a community that brands will pay to reach.
Aakash Gupta and the essay that became a career
A weekend essay about Roblox found almost no readers until Aakash Gupta posted it on LinkedIn. Five years later, the former product executive makes a living explaining how products grow - and how the people building them can keep up.
Jay Clouse Built a Business From an Uncomfortable Question
He once believed he was not creative. A daily writing experiment led through startups, community building, and a creator business organized around a harder question: what earns people’s trust?
Ghost
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform that lets writers, journalists and creators run a website, send email newsletters and sell paid memberships from one place. Built on Node.js and released under the MIT license, it is stewarded by the nonprofit Ghost Foundation and funded entirely by its users through Ghost(Pro) managed hosting - taking 0% of creators' subscription revenue.
The Ankler
The Ankler (Ankler Media) is an independent, subscription-driven media company covering the business of Hollywood and the collision of entertainment, media and technology. Founded as a one-man newsletter by Richard Rushfield in 2017 and expanded into a full media company with former Hollywood Reporter/Billboard chief Janice Min as CEO in 2022, it has grown into a multi-platform operation of roughly 15 newsletters, podcasts, video and live events - read by studio chiefs and moguls it covers, raised $1.5M at a $20M valuation via Y Combinator, and reportedly aiming for $10M in annual revenue in 2026.
Janice Min
Janice Min is the CEO, editor-in-chief and co-owner of Ankler Media, the Hollywood insider newsletter-turned-media-company she built with Richard Rushfield starting in 2021. Before The Ankler, she spent two decades reshaping celebrity and entertainment coverage: as editor-in-chief of Us Weekly (2002-2009) she turned a struggling weekly into a cultural juggernaut, and as editorial director and later co-president of The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard she engineered one of the most celebrated print relaunches of the era. She has won an Emmy and multiple National Magazine Awards, and CNN named her one of the most consequential media figures of 2023.
Swyx (Shawn Wang) & Alessio Fanelli
Swyx (Shawn Wang) and Alessio Fanelli are the co-hosts of Latent Space, the #1 AI Engineering podcast and newsletter with 200,000+ subscribers and 10M+ total readers. Swyx — a former Singapore hedge fund trader turned developer advocate who coined the term 'AI Engineer' — and Alessio — a Forbes 30 Under 30 VC partner and Rome-born dropout-turned-engineer — together define the curriculum and culture of a generation of engineers building with AI.
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.
Dennis X. Hu
Dennis X. Hu is the founder and CEO of Drug Hunter, a subscription knowledge platform that distills the science behind new medicines for more than 200 R&D institutions, including most of the world's top pharma and biotech companies. A medicinal chemist by training, he led small-molecule teams at Genentech and the biotech RAPT Therapeutics (where he helped invent the Phase II oncology candidate tivumecirnon) before turning a side project into a fully remote company of 20+ employees that reaches millions of searches a year and runs entirely on subscription revenue.
JaeKwon Son
JaeKwon Son is the founder and CEO of The Miilk (더밀크), a Silicon Valley-based subscription media and tech-intelligence platform that delivers technology, economy, and investment insight to Korean readers worldwide. After 17-plus years as a tech and business reporter in Korea and a stint as Maeil Business Newspaper's Silicon Valley correspondent, he immigrated to the U.S. and launched The Miilk in 2019 to bridge American innovation and Korean enterprise. Under his leadership the company raised roughly $4.8 billion KRW (about $3.8M) in Series A funding, broke the exclusive that Tesla was entering humanoid robotics, and built an ad-free subscription model focused on perspective over raw news.
The Miilk 더밀크
The Miilk (더밀크) is a Silicon Valley-based cross-border media startup that translates the technology, economy, and investment stories of the U.S. for Korean-speaking professionals. Founded in 2020 by former Maeil Business Newspaper correspondent JaeKwon Son, it runs a subscription news platform at themiilk.com plus the free ViewsLetter newsletter, delivering on-the-ground reporting, analysis, and market intelligence from the heart of Silicon Valley.
Muhammad Rassam
Muhammad Rassam is a Pakistani founder and marketer who started as a blockchain engineer at the agency Antematter and pivoted into AI-first go-to-market work. He is co-founder of Ertiqah, writes the 'Efficient Entrepreneur' newsletter, serves as Chief Marketing Officer at the LinkedIn-content tool LiGo, and co-founded the cold-email platform ColdSend.pro. Based in Dubai, he is known for building lean, AI-leveraged businesses and for candid LinkedIn writing about hiring, marketing, and founder life.
Dan Primack
Dan Primack is the business editor at Axios and the voice behind Pro Rata, the daily newsletter and podcast that has become required reading for the venture capital, private equity, and M&A worlds. What began as an email he sent from his own Outlook account now reaches hundreds of thousands of dealmakers. Over two decades he has built and rebuilt the same beat three times, launching peHUB at Thomson Reuters, Term Sheet at Fortune, and Pro Rata at Axios, turning the unglamorous mechanics of who-bought-whom into a daily must-read.
Chris Hannah
Chris Hannah is a UK-based senior software engineer at WorldFirst (Ant Group) who moonlights as an indie app maker. He builds Text Case, a text-transformation utility for iOS, iPadOS and macOS that has grown from 7 to 50-plus formats, plus Text Shot and a Text Case command-line tool. He writes across three blogs and a monthly long-form newsletter about indie tech, productivity, and the craft of working in bursts.
David Jaxon
David Jaxon writes the Creator Economy Report, a newsletter covering the business of creators and the media industry built around them. Beyond the newsletter and its stated focus on the creator economy and media, no further details about Jaxon could be independently verified through public sources.
Dickie Bush
Dickie Bush is the co-founder of Ship 30 for 30, the cohort-based course that has taught more than 10,000 people to write short 'atomic essays' online. A former Princeton football center and BlackRock portfolio analyst from Tampa, he started writing online in January 2020, pivoted from a stalling newsletter to Twitter, and built an audience of 400,000+ followers. With business partner Nicolas Cole he turned a daily writing habit into a seven-figure education business, the writing software Typeshare, and the Premium Ghostwriting Academy.
Eddie Shleyner
Eddie Shleyner is a conversion copywriter and the founder of VeryGoodCopy, a newsletter of short 'micro-lessons' on writing, persuasion, and creativity read by millions of people a year. A former Copy Chief at the software-review company G2, he turned a private Google Doc of notes-to-self into one of the most-followed copywriting brands on the internet, a HackerNoon 'Email Newsletter of the Year,' and a 2024 book collecting 207 of his lessons. He works and lives in Chicago.
Evan Armstrong
Evan Armstrong writes about profit and power in technology. He spent four years as lead writer at Every, where his column Napkin Math turned finance terms like revenue, COGS, and net income into deeply reported, deeply funny explainers for an audience of more than 100,000. In April 2026 he walked away to launch The Leverage, a solo publication promising rigorous, actionable, beautiful analysis of tech markets for founders, investors, and senior operators. He had never been paid to write before joining Every, and went on to publish almost 500,000 words there.
Gibson Biddle
Gibson Biddle is a product strategy teacher who ran product at Netflix from 2005 to 2010 and was Chief Product Officer at Chegg through its 2014 IPO. He now writes the 'Ask Gib' newsletter for 30,000+ product people, runs workshops, and gives talks built around his DHM model: delight customers in hard-to-copy, margin-enhancing ways. His career stretches from building video games at Electronic Arts to co-founding kids' software firm Creative Wonders to lecturing at Stanford.
Jareau Wadé
Jareau Wadé is a payments entrepreneur, operator, and writer who has spent roughly 15 years building commerce and payments infrastructure. He co-founded Balanced (acquired by Stripe in 2015) and helped scale Finix as its Chief Growth Officer, and now leads product partnerships at Ramp. He writes Batch Processing, a widely-read newsletter dissecting the people, companies, and ideas driving fintech. A Tucson native and UPenn-trained electrical engineer who taught in Ghana before the Bay Area, he relocated to Atlanta and invests in and advises early-stage founders, with a focus on Black entrepreneurship.
Jason Mikula
Jason Mikula is the publisher of Fintech Business Weekly, an independent newsletter that reaches more than 90,000 subscribers with critical, no-favors analysis of banking, fintech, and crypto. After more than a decade scaling consumer lending businesses at Enova, LendUp, and Goldman Sachs, he became one of the most-cited independent voices on Banking-as-a-Service and fintech regulation, writing the award-winning book on BaaS and co-hosting the Fintech Business Podcast. He works from outside Amsterdam, covering the U.S. fintech-banking ecosystem from across an ocean.