In this series, we sit down with our portfolio and program founders to get to know them better. What are they building? What motivates them? What do they love about New York City? This week, we're chatting with Company Ventures portfolio company Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk.
1. Describe what you’re building in 10 words or fewer.
Newsletter platform to help creators and publishers grow and monetize.
2. Let’s assume your company achieves your current, fullest ambitions for it — what about your industry and the world do you hope changes as a result?
More people spending time doing something they’re passionate about, and being able to support themselves comfortably while doing it.
3. What’s your bagel order?
Bacon egg and cheese w/ avocado and hot sauce. Poppy seed.
4. What do you love about New York City, and what makes it a good place to launch a business?
The entropy of talent, people, events, resources, and the proximity to everything you could ever need.
5. What’s your favorite ‘secret’ about New York?
Brooklyn > Manhattan
6. What do you think is the single biggest innovation we'll see within our lifetimes?
Something around carbon capture or nuclear energy that makes the world more sustainable and energy-abundant
7. What’s your favorite movie or TV show that takes place in New York City?
Mr. Robot
8. What motto do you live by?
The only thing you can control is your attitude and your effort.
9. What piece of technology do you wish you’d invented?
Feel like I’d be losing my shit the first time I got wi-fi working .. would have probably been a thrill to connect to something without physically being connected to something.
10. What’s one app on your homescreen that you can’t live without?
Spotify (s/o Big Desk Energy)