#399: Tyler Denk – Turning Down $50 Million

Tyler Denk is the founder of beehiiv, a newsletter platform that was started in October 2021. He previously worked for Morning Brew and Google.

0:00 Intro

0:55 Turning Down $50 Million Offer

5:43 What Makes Tyler’s Mindset Different?

7:32 Lessons From Morning Brew

9:30 Established Company Or Startup?

12:39 The Downsides Are Never As Bad…

15:23 Exceptionalism

20:10 Envy Of Austin Rief & Alex Lieberman (Morning Brew)?

25:02 Working For Google

26:33 Lessons From Morning Brew, Part 2

32:33 Launching beehiiv

38:02 Removing The Noise?

39:41 Mental Wellbeing & Stress

46:55 “I Will Not Let Myself Fail”

48:55 Elon Musk

50:02 SpaceX Interview

53:48 GoDaddy Fiasco

1:00:02 Arnold Schwarzenegger On beehiiv

1:03:04 Remote Vs. In-Person

1:07:33 How To Improve Writing

1:10:55 Weirdest Habit

1:12:01 Favorite Books

1:16:22 Meeting Heroes

1:18:33 Challenge

Links

The Key To Being A Successful Entrepreneur by Tyler Denk: https://medium.com/venturestorm-blog/the-key-to-being-a-successful-entrepreneur-86824a1f3b2d

The Elon Musk Post Series by Tim Urban – https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html

The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann – https://www.amazon.com/Go-Giver-Expanded-Little-Powerful-Business/dp/1591848288

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman  – https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555

Burn Rate by Andy Dunn – https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Rate-Launching-Startup-Losing/dp/0593238265

Tyler’s Links

Website: https://www.beehiiv.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/denk_tweets

My Links 

🎙 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/dannymiranda

🎥 YouTube: https://youtube.com/dannymiranda

🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/heydannymiranda

📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/heydannymiranda