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Dan Shipper

Co-Founder & CEO at Every

Co-founder and CEO of Every, a bleeding-edge AI company with 15 employees, four shipped products, a daily newsletter, and a consulting arm; their engineers don't handwrite code, instead using agents to craft requirements and build products.

The Visionary The Operator

Dimension Profile

Strategic Vision 80%
Execution & Craft 70%
Data & Experimentation 60%
Growth & Distribution 50%
Team & Leadership 60%
User Empathy & Research 40%

Key Themes

zero hand-coded engineering AI operations role AI accelerating junior talent agent-driven product development bleeding edge AI workflows idea crisis in AI era

Episode Summary

Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, reveals how his 15-person company operates at the bleeding edge of AI-native work where no engineer writes code manually and agents handle everything from requirements to building products. He challenges the narrative that AI destroys entry-level jobs, showing how ambitious juniors use AI to compress a year of learning into months, and introduces the Head of AI Operations role as critical infrastructure for the AI-native company.

Leadership Principles

  • → No one on the team manually codes anymore — organizations at the edge are doing things that in three years everybody else will be doing
  • → AI doesn't take away entry-level jobs — a kid with ChatGPT who records feedback and puts it into prompts makes a year of progress in two months
  • → Having a Head of AI Operations who constantly builds prompts and workflows that automate work for everyone is critical infrastructure

Notable Quotes

"No one is manually coding anymore. Organizations like ours, people who are playing at the edge, we're doing things that, in three years, everybody else is going to be doing."

— On Every's fully agent-driven development process

"I hate the headlines that are like, 'Entry-level jobs are taken away by AI.' We have this guy, he made a year's worth of progress in two months because every time I told him how to do something, he recorded it, put it into a prompt, and he never made the same mistake twice."

— On how AI actually accelerates junior talent

"We have a head of AI operations. She's just constantly building prompts and building workflows that I and everyone else on the team are just automating as much as possible."

— On the new role of AI Operations

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