CEOInterviews.AI
Start App
Try: AI strategy tariffs earnings guidance layoffs interest rates growth

Dan Shipper

Co-founder & CEO, Every

Search every verified Dan Shipper interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dan Shipper, co-founder and CEO of Every, discussed building AI agents for knowledge work in an October 2026 conversation with Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse and Every's Willie Williams. He described Every's approach to developing the Every Agent, an AI coworker built on Claude Managed Agents, and noted that reinventing workflows requires testing models on real problems. He also mentioned using isolated staging environments to run experiments on agent behavior and security without affecting production systems. At the Lenny and Friends Summit in September 2026, Shipper appeared on a panel with Anthropic's Ami Vora and Mike Krieger, where he discussed how product management roles are evolving with AI and emphasized the importance of understanding users and making good decisions. In a separate talk at the same event, he advocated for running product teams like research labs, separating exploration from execution, and building many experiments in parallel to adapt to rapidly changing AI capabilities. Earlier in September, Shipper published a video review of Anthropic's Fable 5.1 model, describing it as a significant improvement for coding and knowledge work tasks, and highlighted his team's testing of the model across writing, design, and engineering projects.

Recent appearances

  • Building secure agents for knowledge work

    October 06, 2026 · 📺 Claude

    Katelyn Lesse, Head of Platform Engineering at Anthropic sat down with Dan Shipper, Co-Founder and CEO at Every and Willie Williams, Head of Platform at Every to talk about the Every Agent, the AI coworker they built on Claude Managed Agents. They discuss how knowledge work is changing, testing new AI models on their own day-to-day work, agent security, and why they built on Claude Managed Agents. Learn more about Claude Managed Agents: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/m...

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel

    September 29, 2026 · 📺 Lenny's Podcast

    What does product management look like when AI changes what teams can build every few months? At the Lenny and Friends Summit, Anthropic’s Ami Vora and Mike Krieger join Dan Shipper to discuss why understanding users, making good decisions, and adapting quickly remain essential to the PM role. They also explore software designed for agents, running experiments in parallel, and bringing the ideas that work into a product people can use. Recorded live at Lenny and Friends Summit on September 10, 2026, in San Francisco.

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • How to run your product team like a research lab | Dan Shipper (Every)

    September 24, 2026 · 📺 Lenny's Podcast

    How do you keep building a product when AI capabilities change so quickly? At the Lenny and Friends Summit, Every co-founder and CEO Dan Shipper makes the case for a small research lab that can explore new ideas while the product team improves what already works. He explains how to run fast experiments, test them in real work, and bring the most promising results into the main product. Recorded live at Lenny and Friends Summit on September 10, 2026, in San Francisco.

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • We Tested Anthropic's Fable 5.1 for a Week

    September 01, 2026 · 📺 Every

    Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, spent a week testing Anthropic's latest model: Fable 5.1. This is your day one vibe check. Read the full Fable 5.1 vibe check article https://every.to/vibe-check/fable-5-1... Fable 5.1 prompt library https://every.to/claude-fable-5-promp... Follow Dan Shipper: https://x.com/danshipper Follow Every: https://x.com/every Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:42 Coding 06:26 Knowledge work 12:45 Writing 19:52 Closing thoughts

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Every's Dan Shipper on the "dirty secret" of writing with AI

    August 20, 2026 · 📺 Casey Newton

    For our penultimate episode, I wanted to visit someone running a version of that experiment in a somewhat unexpected place: the media business. Dan Shipper runs a website that reviews new technology alongside a product lab that’s building it — and for some time now I’ve wondered what it’s like to work in a place like that. Today Every is a publication about AI that draws attention across the industry. At the same time, Every is also a product studio. But AI is changing the way that the company writes. Every has tried to clone the taste of its editor in chief, Kate Lee, by collecting a dataset…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • How to (Actually) Improve Your Life with AI with Dan Shipper

    August 03, 2026 · 📺 Jonny Miller│Nervous System Mastery and Every

    Dan Shipper is the CEO at Every and living on the frontier of AI. CHAPTERS 0:00 Before we begin 0:38 Annie Dillard, art and writing 4:14 Can AI deepen human craft? 5:43 The slot-machine effect of AI agents 6:55 Dan's “house phone” experiment 8:01 What AI can actually help us create 13:55 AI as a non-specific amplifier 17:23 Why AI companies mishandled the story 19:36 Will AI destroy jobs? 22:35 AI as “frozen competence” 26:11 Are human-AI centaurs temporary? 31:34 Career advice for the AI era 37:19 The traits that matter now 40:08 Every as an AI research lab 42:25 The coherence problem 45:25…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • We Tested Claude Opus 5. It’s Frustrating With Flashes of Brilliance.

    July 24, 2026 · 📺 Every

    We tested Claude Opus 5 for a week across coding and knowledge work. Dan Shipper breaks down where it struggled, why complex skills can make it stop early, and the counterintuitive setting that improved his results. The early verdict: Opus 5 is hard to love. It can be pushy, break workflows built for Opus 4.8, and quit before the work is finished. Lower thinking effort and simpler prompts helped, but Dan still prefers GPT-5.6 for daily work and Fable for the biggest assignments. Get the full Vibe Check from the entire Every team: https://every.to/vibe-check/opus-5 Every is the most AI-nativ…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Anthropic Expert: Rethink What's Possible With Fable 5

    June 10, 2026 · 📺 Every

    Mike Krieger built one of the most consequential consumer apps of the last two decades as the cofounder of Instagram. He is now at the frontier of AI-native product development as head of Anthropic Labs, the team responsible for figuring out what the most capable AI models can do in the hands of real builders. When Krieger first got access to Fable 5 months before its public release, it was exciting and disorienting. “I feel like a total newbie again,” he remembers telling his team. The way he’d been thinking about productivity, strategy, and time management was out of date. The model had outp…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • We Tested Anthropic’s Fable 5 for a Week

    June 09, 2026 · 📺 Every

    Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, spent a week testing Anthropic’s Fable 5, a Mythos-class model that scored a 91 out of 100 on Every’s senior-engineer benchmark, compared with a 63 for Opus 4.8 and a 62 for GPT-5.5. It excels at research, complex judgment, and large projects, but it is slow, expensive and best suited for high-level agentic builders. Dan breaks down how to get the most out of the best coding model on the market, and what this means for the future of work after automation. Read the full Vibe Check: https://every.to/vibe-check/anthropic... Claude Fable 5 Prompt Library: https://eve…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • How to Stay Employable in the Age of Agents

    May 27, 2026 · 📺 Every

    Dan Shipper runs one of the most AI-native companies today. Every has agents embedded in nearly every workflow—“if you swing a stick in our Slack, you're as likely to hit a human as an agent,” he says. And yet the company has grown from four people to 30 since GPT-3 came out, and is still hiring. Why does Dan believe there's more human work to do than ever? In a format flip for AI & I, Every's COO Brandon Gell turns the tables and interviews Dan about his latest essay, “After Automation”—an 8,000-word argument for why rising automation doesn't eliminate demand for human work, it increases it.…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • AI predictions: Job markets, Codex beats Claude, and the death of org charts | Dan Shipper

    May 24, 2026 · 📺 Lenny's Podcast

    Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a media and software company that’s become a living laboratory for the future of work. Everyone at his company of about 30 people is an AI early adopter; from editors to ops people, they use AI to do much of their work, giving Every a unique lens into where the world is heading. A year ago on this show, Dan predicted that people were sleeping on Claude Code for nontechnical work, which proved to be remarkably prescient. Today he’s back with another set of calls: the SaaS apocalypse is dumb, CLIs are over, the forward deployed engineer is the most…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Starship Launch, World's Fair Retrospective, Matt Grimm Does the Murph, Big China Moves

    May 22, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:05:07 Sacks Spikes AI EO 00:12:02 America's IPO Market Wakes Up 00:21:53 Starship Launch 00:32:34 World's Fair Retrospective 00:49:52 Dan Shipper, co-founder and CEO of Every, discusses the transformative impact of AI agents like Codex and Claude Code on knowledge work, highlighting how these tools have automated tasks in coding, writing, design, and customer service, leading to Every's growth from 4 to 30 employees since GPT-3. He emphasizes that while AI makes expert competence more accessible, it simultaneously increases the demand for human expertise to provide judgment and differentiat…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

The summary and quote tags on this profile are produced with AI assistance from verified, first-person interview transcripts, then checked by our team to confirm the speaker's identity and the accuracy of every quote. See how we verify →