Announcing Lex’s $2.75m Seed Round, Led by True Ventures - Divinations - Every

Hi! Nathan here. Nine months ago, when I started building Lex, I really did not have any of this in mind. I had just come back from paternity leave, my first real break from work since we started the business, and while I was out changing diapers and warming bottles, I often found myself thinking about software. Specifically, I couldn’t stop thinking about how much I missed making it. So, when I came back, I started day-dreaming about side projects I could build that would somehow fit in at Every. My first idea was a text-based version of BeReal, where once a day users would get a prompt like, “What’s your worst food-related opinion?” But after two days of delusion I accepted the obvious conclusion that this was a terrible idea and had no connection to our newsletter business. I considered building a little tool for editing podcast episodes that would enable uploading an MP3 to a webpage that could be shared, where anyone could leave timestamped comments. This was better, but I decided

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