Co-founder & CEO, beehiiv
Search every verified Tyler Denk interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Tyler Denk, co-founder and CEO of Beehiiv, appeared on The AI Download podcast in June 2026, where he discussed the platform's newsletter monetization, which he said generates over $3 million per month. During the conversation, Denk attributed the decline of legacy digital publishers like BuzzFeed and Mashable to over-reliance on single distribution channels, citing changes to Facebook's algorithm, Twitter's deprioritization of external links, and reduced Google traffic to publishers due to AI overviews. He described email as an open protocol that offers creators a more stable ownership model compared to platform-dependent media. Denk also discussed using AI tools in his workflow, specifically mentioning an MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration with Claude that allows him to query subscriber data, identify engaged readers, and analyze advertiser performance without manual dashboard navigation. He expressed skepticism about claims that the newsletter industry has reached peak saturation, comparing email to other enduring media formats like books, podcasts, and video.
beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk joins Shira Lazar and Jenny Stojkovic on The AI Download to break down how the platform scales newsletter monetization to over $3 million a month. In this episode, Tyler shares how creators are building million-dollar newsletter businesses, why email remains the ultimate digital media asset, and how modern publishing tools are changing the creator economy. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/shiralazar_?s...
Tyler Denk is giving you The Newsletter Playbook · beehiiv's path to $50M ARR → https://openresidency.com/tyler-denk-... Tyler Denk turned Big Desk Energy into a six-figure side business working five hours a week. He did it by building and using beehiiv, the newsletter platform he co-founded. This conversation covers the entire playbook: pre-launch waitlists, email gates, referral programs, the Boost network, lead magnets, and paid acquisition. You'll also hear about the five main ways to monetize a newsletter, why Tyler raised a $12.5M Series A in six days, and how he manages 130 remote emp…
AdTechGod sits down with Tyler Denk, Co-Founder & CEO of beehiiv, to discuss how beehiiv evolved from a newsletter platform into a complete creator operating system. Tyler shares lessons from Morning Brew, why creators should own their audience, AI's role in publishing, and how beehiiv is reshaping newsletter and podcast monetization. Takeaways: Tyler shares how Morning Brew inspired the creation of beehiiv. Learn why owning your audience matters more than relying on social platforms. Discover how AI and automation are simplifying creator workflows. Hear how beehiiv is expanding into podcasts…
Can independent media out-build traditional outlets? 🚀In this midweek edition of Next TMT Talks, hosts David Bloom and Daniel Frankel sit down with Tyler Denk, CEO and Founder of Beehiiv. Tyler shares how his experience scaling Morning Brew to 4 million subscribers led to building Beehiiv, the all-in-one publishing, growth, and monetization engine for modern media creators. Plus, David and Dan react to breaking industry news—including the EU conditionally waving through the massive Paramount-Skydance / Warner Bros. Discovery merger while state AGs mount a legal challenge—and examine why maj…
Clipbook CEO Adam Joseph sits down with Tyler Denk, CEO & Co-Founder of beehiiv, for a masterclass on the art of strategic storytelling and why it's become one of the most powerful growth levers a founder can invest in. As employee number two at Morning Brew, Tyler helped architect one of the most iconic media brands of the last decade, building the growth engine and editorial infrastructure that scaled it to millions of subscribers. He went on to found beehiiv, growing it from zero to a $225M valuation and $30M in annual revenue in just four years — with storytelling at the heart of every mi…
Kaya Yurieff sits down with Beehiiv CEO and co-founder Tyler Denk to talk about where the newsletter industry actually stands, whether it's gotten too saturated and how Beehiiv is thinking about its competition. Denk also shares why he believes AI is still an untapped opportunity for writers.
Tyler Denk was employee #2 at Morning Brew before it scaled to 4 million readers and got acquired by Business Insider. Then he built beehiiv — the platform now powering Jamie's List, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Time Magazine, and thousands of other creators. On the day beehiiv dropped a wave of new product launches, Tyler joined me to talk about all of it — including why he thinks Substack's business model is straight up predatory (he didn't hold back), what the creator economy actually looked like on the ground at Cannes Lions this year, and whether AI is coming for newsletter writers…
Many media companies run into serious scaling issues because their digital content tools are spread across separate, clunky platforms. Tyler Denk, CEO at beehiiv, breaks down how to bundle newsletters, premium subscriptions, and podcast networks into one clean delivery system. He shares his blueprint for bypassing social media algorithm changes by focusing on direct email distribution channels to build predictable, long-term brand equity. Key discussion areas include: Using first-party pixel data to scale cross-newsletter ad placements programmatically. Streamlining tech stacks by replacing f…
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Tyler Denk joined Morning Brew as employee #2. One newsletter send made $4,000. At 3 million subscribers, the same send made $80,000 — with no additional editorial work. That leverage mindset became beehiiv. Four years later, beehiiv is at $30M ARR, projecting $50M revenue, with just 110 employees — and growing fast. The morning Tyler publicly shared beehiiv’s $2.1M monthly recurring revenue on LinkedIn, he joined us to break down exactly how they’re scaling with AI, automation, and disciplined hiring. If you’re building a lean startup, scaling a SaaS company, growing a newsletter, or tryin…
🐝 Join beehiiv here and use code GROWLETTER for 20% off: https://www.beehiiv.com/ I sit down with Tyler Denk to break down how he built Big Desk Energy into a 120k+ subscriber newsletter—while still working a full-time job as Beehiiv's CEO. They get tactical on weekly workflow, “night-before / day-after” social promos, email-gated posts, referral rewards that cost $0, and how paid growth (Meta + Beehiiv Boosts) helps scale past 50k. Tyler also shares how he monetizes with sponsors, Boost revenue, and a high-ticket Costa Rica mastermind—and why founder-led marketing and trust matter more than…
Get Shaan's money rules he used to go from broke to $25M by 30: https://clickhubspot.com/gwb Have a newsletter? Want to pitch it live on an upcoming episode of My First Million for a chance to win Shaan and Tyler becoming official advisors plus $10K? Join the MFM Newsletter Challenge → beehiiv.com/mfm and use code MFM30 for 30% off your first 3 months. Episode 790: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Tyler Denk ( https://x.com/denk_tweets ) about every step he took to grow Beehiiv to $1M in 12 months. Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (5:10) The marketing kill shot (7:52) launch a comp…
“I think it's worth calling out that I'm a super competitive person and me part of building in public one it's I guess this is less building in public but I sent a monthly investor update every single month since we first started the company to all of our investors friends family and every investor who passed in us as well just kind of like a little [__] you for not believing in us cuz like cuz I actually later stage ”
“Everyone always asks, 'How do I scale my newsletter faster?' And the shitty answer is like, 'There is not a silver bullet.' Like, there's definitely different strategies and things you can do, and I'm happy to walk through all of them, but there's not one that leads to hypergrowth. It's typically the combination of doing five, six, seven things really well consistently that turns into 10 subscribers a day to 20 subsc”
“The Beehive ad network is actually one of our biggest bets as a company. The thinking there was I saw firsthand at Morning Brew that we had a team of 25 brand partners who were talking to companies and agencies to sell advertisements and sponsors to our newsletters. Then I looked at the growth of the newsletter ecosystem and Substack came out very opinionated that the only way to monetize content on the internet shou”
“I posted on X the other week that I think the creator economy is the future of media and I think you're seeing it in all sorts of facets. Whether it's legacy media getting smaller, whether it's a lot of the top talent from legacy media going independent, and I'd consider them broadly a creator. Whether it's the explosive growth that you're seeing on all of these channels and platforms from YouTube to Instagram to Tik”
“I think the Amazon versus Shopify analogy holds up pretty well. At Amazon there's millions of third party sellers but no one actually knows them. You kind of just go to amazon.com or the Amazon app. Amazon collects a lot of data on the customer, passes very little back to the merchant. It shows up in an Amazon box. Amazon owns that entire customer relationship. I view Substack and the ecosystem they've built very sim”
“Substack is trying to build a social platform. And going back to your point, you were complimented on your Substack, like not Jaime's List, not your media company, not your newsletter, not your website. We use the Amazon Shopify analogy a lot. There are millions of third party sellers on Amazon. Most people don't know them because they just type in whatever they want to buy and that's what that's like their interacti”
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