What does the CEO of beehiiv think of Substack?
One way to find out is by reading Feed Me.
Good morning everyone. I made Feed Me’s crewnecks available for purchase last night! The mediums are sold-out, but I'll have more available for purchase in-person next weekend. Hold tight.
I’m going to do fulfillment myself for this round, so please have patience with me. I’m going to try to get all the orders out this weekend.
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For our next Guest Lecture, we’ll be interviewing (this is a fun one) Tyler Denk, the CEO of beehiiv. beehiiv is a newsletter publishing platform, like Substack. Prior to co-founding the company, Tyler was the second employee at Morning Brew in a role that spanned engineering, product, and growth. He laster spent time at Google.
Earlier this week, I was surprised to see his essay openly critiquing Substack — beehiiv’s main competitor. This is a space I’m obviously interested in because it’s my job, and I’m noticing some of my readers are increasingly curious about the newsletter landscape.
Paid readers can ask Tyler anything they want this week (about the newsletter economy, the changing media landscape, or his career), and I’ll publish his answers next week. Looking forward to seeing what you guys ask.
The New Consumer’s Dan Frommer released his 2025 Consumer Trends. I saw him yesterday for coffee, and we spoke a bit specifically about the alcohol section — here’s what his report finds:
Only 6% of respondents had an N/A beer in the last year.
The most popular alcohol-substitute beverages are soda and water, not mocktails and energy drinks.
Consumers still expect non-alcoholic substitutes to cost less than alcohol. Yikes!
I’d love to read a report like this on the state of hospitality and restaurants.
It’s getting hard for parents to ignore the fact that their kids watch porn. Brian Willoughby, a social scientist at Brigham Young University, is dedicated to teaching young people that the content they watch is unrealistic, misleading about many sexual relations and, as a result, potentially harmful. Earlier this year, The New York Times reported that the number of young women engaging in “rough sex” was rapidly spiking. Last week, Pornhub released their 2024 trends, and it feels like the results were heavily glossed over by a PR company — their top trend is “demure” sex, which just feels inaccurate based on everything else I read this year about porn.
Hailey Bieber’s Rhode allegedly did $40mm in revenue in November. If that sounds fun to you, they’re hiring.