Dan Shipper
Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, an AI-focused media and product company that publishes newsletters and builds AI-native software tools. He writes the "Chain of Thought" column on artificial intelligence and its implications for knowledge workers, and hosts the "AI & I" podcast exploring how notable figures use AI in their work. Shipper co-founded Every from the Superorganizers newsletter, which he launched while studying at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also previously co-founded Firefly, a customer-support software company acquired by Pegasystems in 2014. He is widely known for running Every as a real-world laboratory for AI-native work, with the company building multiple software products using AI-generated code and a small team.
“There's a lot of real concern internally right now from researchers because the problem was apparently more long-term and widespread than they initially thought it was.”
Source→“The government being involved here is actually super important. They just need to find the right balance between safety and broad access.”
Source→“I just had Dan Shipper from Every on the podcast. Everyone's just increasing headcount. Like the companies you would think would be least likely to add humans are adding many, many humans.”
Source→“Automation is a lie. Every agent needs a human. We have so much automation, so much AI, and I also work way more.”
Source→“Everybody at Avery is an AI early adopter. We're almost 30 people now.”
Source→“With proof, for example, anyone who uses it — I don't pay for tokens because they're just bringing their AI to proof.”
Source→“Cursor's cloud implementation is better than either OpenAI or Anthropic's and is more advanced... cursor has at least so far more distinctly chosen a lane — they're more distinctly choosing to be for programmers.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.