How is beehiiv making $15 mil per year?

Tyler Denk, beehiiv, SaaS (software as a service)

They feel like the millionth company to offer email newsletter publishing. How are they growing so fast despite the competition?

Tyler Denk is a big reason. A former Morning Brew employee, he took their growth techniques and turned them into a software company: beehiiv.

Tyler Denk

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Tyler Denk was the second-ever employee at Morning Brew. After growing it to the reported biggest exit of any newsletter business, he started building beehiiv. Now, they’re doing $15 million in ARR as a growing underdog.

Andrew Warner: [00:00:00] Hey there, Freedom Fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. I partnered up with a buddy of mine, recently, Jesse Poojie, to [00:00:09] help grow his newsletter. And we’re now turning it into a business that we both co own.

And the thing is, I thought newsletters were dead. I’m watching Jesse and me, and I’m [00:00:18] doing it myself, actually. We’re building the newsletter together. It’s called Bootstrap Giants. And I realize, newsletters are not dead. They’re so frickin exciting because I’m [00:00:27] begging people on, on Twitter right now. To interact with me and I’m hardly getting any responses.

I do appreciate them for people like Dylan and [00:00:36] M uh, Emmerich and Sparsh and others, but man, when I sent out an email newsletter and I asked for feedback and I asked for somebody to get...

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