Every's CEO says the newsletter is dead. Is he right?

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Letterland Live SPAM or STAR is powered by beehiiv. Want to send from the ESP where newsletter legends are made? Get 30% off beehiiv with code FALL30 @ beehiiv.link/fall30 This week on Letterland LIVE we're joined by Ben Tossell, founder of Ben's Bites, the AI newsletter with 172,000+ subscribers. Every's CEO Dan Shipper says the newsletter is dead because his AI agent reads his inbox now. Ben tells us if he's right, how he uses AI as a reader AND an operator, how his fund fits into the Ben's Bites business model, and whether Ben's Bites is about to become a video. Then Milly Tamati, CEO & founder of Generalist World, a newsletter 55,000 people read each week, plays Spam or Star and breaks down if her social quiz growth hack is still working. We'll get into: - Gmail's AI Inbox comes to paid Workspace accounts - "The newsletter is dead": Nathan May, Matt McGarry and Emily Sundberg react - Marc Lou's MailCheap hits 3-figure MRR - Workweek's B2B network: 39 newsletters, 23,651 subscribers, and why B2B's 3-5% creator budget is about to climb - MarketBeat's $150 million in net income (40% in the last two years) - Michael Burry's Substack price hike - Consulting Hat: 3,000 hospital