Dan Shipper co-founded and leads Every, a New York media and software company exploring the future of work with AI. He writes Chain of Thought, a weekly AI column read by more than 130,000 people, co-hosts The Every Podcast and is listed among Good Start Labs’ backers as a Sequoia scout; he previously co-founded Firefly, a customer-support software company he started at Penn and sold to Pegasystems in 2014.
Dan Shipper co-founded and leads Every, a New York media and software company exploring the future of work with AI. He writes Chain of Thought, a weekly AI column read by more than 130,000 people, co-hosts The Every Podcast and is listed among Good Start Labs’ backers as a Sequoia scout; he previously co-founded Firefly, a customer-support software company he started at Penn and sold to Pegasystems in 2014.
2020 — PresentNew York, NY
Co-founded and runs Every, which publishes a daily AI newsletter read by 130,000+ people, builds AI apps (Cora, Sparkle, Spiral, Monologue, Proof, Plus One) and trains leadership teams to use AI at work.
Until 2014
Co-founded Firefly, a customer-support software company started while he was a student at Penn; acquired by Pegasystems in 2014.
His 2023 TED talk from The Way We Work series.
His 2024 essay arguing AI turns knowledge workers into managers of models.
Dec 2025 talk on how Every runs as an AI-native company.
Sep 2026 interview with OpenAI's Sam Altman on The Every Podcast.