The Pipeline

Jason Fried, co-founder of Basecamp, joins Dan to talk about building a business (vs. maintaining one), long-lasting businesses, setting a business up to succeed, reinventing your business, thinking big too early, and competition.

Dan interviews Denys Zhadanov of Readdle, makers of iOS productivity apps including Spark, Calendars 5, and PDF Expert with over 45 million downloads. They discuss the challenges of growing a user base, working within the constraints of the App Store, and tips for small developers.

Dan interviews Paul Haddad, co-founder of Tapbots and co-creator of the popular Tweetbot iOS app. They talk about the Twitter and Apple ecosystems, independent app development, and more.

Dan interviews Andy McMillan, co-creator of the XOXO Festival in Portland. They discuss the evolution of the event, the importance of a creating local events, creativity, pursuit of excellence, and more.

Dan talks with Heather Armstrong about her inspiration to start writing on the web, getting "dooced", the importance of sharing her life and making people laugh, storytelling, and how writing for the web has changed.

Guest Angelo Coppola joins Dan Benjamin to talk about the currenty of life (time) and how to reclaim it, floating vs. sinking, leaving behind the world of marketing, a/b testing, and eyeball tracking for a life focused on quality. They discuss "lifestyle entrepeneurism", beating the temptation to quit, being reevaluating assumptions, quitting coffee, a formula for creativity, and what to do when everything goes wrong.

Dan talks with Jeff Veen, Design Partner at True Ventures, advisor to about.me, Medium, WordPress, previously VP of Design at Adobe, founder of Typekit, and more. They discuss emergent technologies, being first vs. being great, speed and momentum vs. secrecy, the best way to learn, "switching costs", separating release from launch, investors, VCs, and creativity.

Dan Benjamin interviews Nilay Patel, Editor-In-Chief of The Verge, about his path from the University of Chicago (where he achieved a 3.5 GPA) to law school, Engadget, and The Verge. They discuss the current state of media, web publications, blogging, and more.

Dan is joined by Joshua Topolsky, the editor of Bloomberg Digital, and Bloomberg Media’s chief digital content officer. He is the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of The Verge, and a co-creator of Vox Media.

They talk about creativity, taking risks, shifting perspectives, and more.

Dan is joined by Tim Ferriss, who has been described as “A cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist monk.” by the New York Times. He has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People”, Forbes Magazine’s “Names You Need to Know,” and is the 7th “most powerful” personality on Newsweek’s Digital 100 Power Index for 2012. He is an angel investor, an advisor, and author of the The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and most recently The 4-Hour Chef.