This week on Creator Spotlight we’re joined by the co-founder and CEO of beehiiv, Tyler Denk. Following beehiiv’s highly anticipated winter release event, Tyler and Francis discuss the company’s approach to becoming the operating system of the “content economy”.

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Catch up on beehiiv’s Winter Release Event

• Full event video

• Event in 90 seconds

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Tyler Denk

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Francis Zierer

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Timestamps

00:00:00 Introducing Tyler Denk

00:01:45 The next step in the content economy

00:07:20 Scaling past the education gap

00:12:40 Becoming the tool, not the brand

00:16:52 Lowering the barrier to entry for creators

00:21:25 What is the “content economy?”

00:26:29 Building a world class ad network

00:33:48 Growing a newsletter to 120k subscribers

00:46:46 Finding the gap in the content economy infrastructure

00:57:29 Building features for every type of user

01:01:53 Knowing your customer