And so we spun it out, and Nathan has moved over to run it full-time. With this new fundraise he'll be able to hire a team and build a modern, intelligent word processor for the AI age. I’m incredibly excited for the future of Lex, and I know @nbaschez is going to knock it out
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Lex AI Startup Spins Off After Rapid Internal Growth
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When we launched Lex almost a year ago, the original intention was to run it internally. But it started to grow so fast that it became obvious that it needed to become a separate venture-backed business.
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Every Builds AI Products Leveraging Writing Authority
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The beautiful thing about building a business like @Every is that our writing also gives us the audience and authority to build products. We've been building products from the beginning of Every, but we'd never seen anything like Lex.
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Building an Institution for Business Writing by Practitioners
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Our goal @Every is to build an institution in business writing. The best way to do that is to produce writing from practitioners—people who have just as much fidelity with words as they do with pixels or code.
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Lex Spins Out From Every With $2.75M Seed Funding
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We're spinning @lexdotpage out of @Every
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AI Language Becoming Primary Framework for Understanding World
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Not necessarily saying this is good or bad, just that the language we use tends to reflect what we think is the most state-of-the-art way to describe the world. In my opinion, the language of AI is going to take that mantle from science sooner rather than later.
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AI Training Paradigm Replaces Scientific Metaphor for Startups
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Science (hypothesis, theory, experiment) has been the dominant metaphor for how to think about startups for the last decade. I think AI (training, prediction, loss) will become the dominant metaphor for how to think about startups over the next decade.
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Fundraising causality: execution matters more than capital
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i think it's causal, i do agree that raising money can increase it. the causal part is day after day trying to do something you're not suited to / don't want to do you're going to get out-executed by people for whom what they're doing is smooth and fun
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Supporting Good Science in Psychology Through Donation
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I just donated. If you care about good science in psychology, you should too.
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Founders Lose Billions by Faking Status Instead of Embracing Weirdness
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Billions of dollars in value are lost by founders trying to be some high-status thing they're not, instead of letting themselves be the weird thing they are.