Dan Shipper
CEO & Co-founder, Every
About
Dan Shipper is the CEO and co-founder of Every, a media company publishing a daily newsletter on business, AI, and personal development read by nearly 75,000 founders, operators, and investors. He writes the column Chain of Thought, exploring the frontiers of AI in work and life. Before Every, he co-founded Firefly (acquired by Pega in 2014) and worked as a Partner at First Round Capital.
Key Contributions
- Founded Every, turning an independent media company into a laboratory for AI-native writing, products, and consulting
- Writes Chain of Thought, documenting how language models change work, creativity, management, and software practice
- Popularizes concrete AI workflows rather than abstract futurism, often showing the messy details of using tools in real organizations
- Argues for AI-native company design, including small teams and heavy use of agents and automation
- His enthusiasm is useful because it is hands-on, though the model may generalize less cleanly to organizations with regulation, legacy systems, or lower trust
