Emails from sender «Big Desk Energy».
Source: Readwise Reader export, ingested 2026-10-29. Entries: 42. Summaries are truncated from frontmatter summary; absent ⇒ omitted.
- WHCD (kinda) — 2026-04-28
It’s the annual black-tie event hosted by the White House Correspondents’ Association (the journalists who cover the president and the White…
- Day off — 2026-04-21
- I took that personally — 2026-04-14
We had normalized an irrational amount of spending without having the attribution or data to justify it.
- hola from mexico — 2025-07-08
And with AI accelerating how quickly startups are growing, security expectations are higher earlier than ever.
- acquired — 2025-07-01
beehiiv offers users the ability to host their website, and also distribute newsletters, all within the same platform.
- 10 days of ridiculousness — 2025-06-24
And with AI accelerating how quickly startups are growing, security expectations are higher earlier than ever.
- friendly reminder — 2025-06-17
Building a successful startup requires a ton of energy and focus.
- all hands — 2025-06-10
Our (twice weekly) all hands meetings are the perfect encapsulation of all three. We host one on Monday to kick off the week, then one on Fr…
- launch disaster — 2025-06-03
The “I fucked up, don’t do what I did” posts always seem to resonate the most, so here I am doing my civic duty.
- it’s all relative — 2025-05-27
Why? I can now streamline contracts and invoices all within the same document… while Agree tracks the payment, recovers lost revenue, and sy…
- anxiety — 2025-05-20
It’s the anxiety of potentially losing a customer that ensures I’m always on and available.
- company offiste — 2025-05-13
It’s currently midnight Friday night, and I’m up solo writing this on the rooftop of our Airbnb in Tulum.
- 100K — 2025-05-06
If you were wondering what 100,000 people looked like — my subscribers could fill Ohio State’s football stadium and collectively read the ne…
- three years — 2025-04-29
Describing him as the smartest and kindest person I’ve ever met would be an understatement.
- need for speed — 2025-04-22
Hampton is a highly vetted membership community for high-growth founders.
- timezone arbitrage — 2025-04-15
I’m a total optimization nutcase, or at least, I sort of need to be to successfully build this company.
- how to spend a half milli — 2025-04-08
During our first year in business we didn’t spend a dollar on acquisition. Rather than becoming overly dependent on paid acquisition to grow…
- revenue, product, people — 2025-04-01
That only represents our subscription revenue, and doesn’t include revenue from Boosts or the Ad Network (the latter of which had a blowout…
- how to ship like beehiiv — 2025-03-25
They offer 70+ native plugins (calendar, weather, stock prices, etc. ) that you can set up in minutes.
- beehiiv go vroom — 2025-03-18
Typically I use this newsletter to share some of the behind-the-scenes stories and insights as we scale the company in real-time.
- absolute chaos — 2025-03-11
Amidst the recurring meetings and calls there is a revolving door of things breaking and other things being fixed.
- building building building — 2025-03-04
What’s better — they landed in our pipeline because their CTO reads this very newsletter (what’s up Burhan).
- 31 takeaways — 2025-02-25
I was the last person up to begin working (the rest of the group was at a table behind me).
- great idea Tyler — 2025-02-18
Building a successful startup requires a ton of energy and focus.
- early days — 2025-02-11
Rob Schutz was the former Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer at Ro and now spends his days helping founders and publicly traded companies a…
- doing things — 2025-02-04
Let Confetti do this for you, they automatically send personalized gifts to your top prospects that generate 10x more meetings.
- a letter — 2025-01-28
Last week we launched our brand new website builder (internally dubbed the “dream builder”).
- own the narrative — 2025-01-21
Now I can send, sign, and get paid—all in one place. No more waiting around for checks or jumping between apps.
- common sense — 2025-01-14
Now I can send, sign, and get paid—all in one place. No more waiting around for checks or jumping between apps.
- how to fundraise — 2025-01-07
Now I can send, sign, and get paid—all in one place. No more waiting around for checks or jumping between apps.
- all good things come to an end — 2024-12-24
The Carry Solo 401k gives eligible business owners and side hustlers the largest tax advantages on any retirement plan.
- contrast therapy — 2024-12-17
Arc’s product is powerful yet simple and offers some of the most competitive treasury rates in the industry.
- death by a thousand substacks — 2024-12-10
Prior to building beehiiv, I was the second employee at Morning Brew. We scaled the business to nearly 4M subscribers and a $75M acquisition…
- not another black friday email — 2024-12-03
When it comes to Black Friday, most people probably think of large crowds lining up outside of malls on Thanksgiving night, discounted TVs,…
- speak to the CEO — 2024-11-26
Of course we had a few early beta testers dishing us feedback while we were building, but this was the first real potentially paying custome…
- breaking news — 2024-11-19
It’s a multimillion dollar investment to equip leading journalists with the tools, resources, and operational support they need to build sus…
- sticky — 2024-11-12
beehiiv powers tens of thousands of the most popular newsletters in the world.
- add to playlist — 2024-11-05
In the summer, my friends and I would escape the city and squeeze 12 of us into a 4 bedroom house in the Hamptons.
- support needed — 2024-10-29
As is true for most early stage founders, wearing multiple hats is just part of the job.
- patience — 2024-10-22
Last week at beehiiv we launched one of the most impactful updates in company history.
- get off my lawn — 2024-10-15
A few people wrote in last week that they didn’t like the “Fight! Fight!
- fight! fight! fight! — 2024-10-08
It’s just blindly accepted that the natural trajectory of companies is to move from one end to the other.