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Joined November 2017
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Last month we got roasted by our @beehiiv customers.
It sucked, so I wrote about what happened👇
the-release-notes.beehiiv.co…
the biggest mistake brands can make is treating your MCP like an afterthought (eg just slapping it on top of your API).
The @beehiiv team has been heads down for the last 2 months trying to build the best MCP experience possible - and people are loving it
quick shout-out to @beehiiv & @denk_tweets's team:
the beehiiv MCP integration is freaking great and this week i had it generate a survey via claude co-work and it just worked
saved me a crazy amount of time and good lord, this feels like agentic ai *actually* working
2012: Launched a rugby charity in Uganda with brother (failed).
2013: Headed to Trinity to study Econ. Planned to become a finance bro.
2014: Realized I didn't like finance. Switched sights to mgmt consulting.
2015: Won a consulting competition. Landed an internship at Deloitte.
2016: Worked on blockchain during the internship. Loved it. Went to a blockchain hackathon. Met Kevin & @z_a_c_h_d , won it. Decided to start a company with our idea (Ticketchain).
2017: Doubled down on startup. Turned down a post-grad CS degree in London. Joined an accelerator. Raised some money.
2018: Full grind. Slept on sofas and in friends' parents' attics (s/o Kevin & Mark). Ran out of cash. Closed it down.
2019: Decided my career was in Growth. Moved to Australia. Joined @CamplifyTeam as Head of Growth.
2022: Took the company from $1.6M → $25M revenue. Paid out $60M to community members worldwide. IPO'd. Decided my career should be in Product. Moved back to the UK. Joined KOMI (pre-revenue) as a PM.
2024: Accidentally ended up in Growth & Marketing again. Built one of the most popular link-in-bio tools in the creator economy. Hit $1M revenue.
2025: Decided I definitely had to get back to Product. Joined @beehiiv as PM to own product expansion.
2026: Biggest quarter ever. Hit $30M ARR. Became Head of Product.
Wouldn't change a thing.
This is the reaction we push for whenever we kick off a beta launch at @beehiiv 🔥
Want to see what else we're building? Join us on July 16th.
(RSVP here lnkd.in/earWGsS5)
s/o @TheEVuniverse for the beehiiv love!
Jake MccGwire 🐝 retweeted
this is probably the project I'm most proud of in my entire career
on July 16th we're hosting the @beehiiv Summer Release Event 2026 — announcing the updates that will reshape this entire industry
virtual, free, 30 minutes. RSVP 👇
beehiiv.com/summer-release-2…
Looking forward to the @CorridorDigital reaction/breakdown to this explosion... @SirWrender is going to be a happy man
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Jake MccGwire 🐝 retweeted
we just crossed $30M ARR @beehiiv
here’s the “overnight success” that took 4 years:
14 months: $0 → $1m
12 months: $1m → $5m
9 months: $5m → $10m
6 months: $10m → $15m
5 months: $15m → $20m
5 months: $20m → $25m
4 months: $25m → $30m
and the $30M doesn't include the ~$15M of annualized revenue from Ads/Boosts 😏
Jake MccGwire 🐝 retweeted
🚨 friday job drop. we're on pace to double revenue in 2026 → come join us @ @beehiiv...
Product Marketing Manager
💰 $120K - $160K + Equity
Account Executive, Enterprise
💰 $180K - $190K + Equity
plus, we offer some ridiculous perks...
🌎 fully remote
💰 competitive salary
📈 401(k) match
🩺 insurance
🧘🏿♀️ monthly wellness day
📚 unlimited book budget
🏃🏽♀️ tons of autonomy
drop a comment if you're interested. shoot me a follow to stay up to date on our latest new roles (more coming soon)
Another standard month for @beehiiv ...
Here's everything we launched in April:
- Native podcast hosting
- New email layouts
- Metered Paywalls
- Paid trials
- New pricing options to paid subsciptions
- External subscribe forms V3
- Preset audiences for templates
- Duplicating automations across publications
- Podcast analytics MCP
- Podcast newsletter integration widget
- Podcast x YT integration
- Webinars
- MCP 2.0 (today!)
Anthropic: we just launched opus 4.7, routines, cowork projects, dispatch, Claude for excel and ppt, auto mode, mythos coming soon etc etc
OpenAI:…
If you're interested in switching your podcast to beehiiv, DM me and I can answer any questions.
I was lucky enough to work as the product manager on the @beehiiv MCP with @hargettly & @denk_tweets .
Here's everything I learnt during the build so you can build one too.
the-release-notes.beehiiv.co…
If you want to know how we launched the @beehiiv MCP - you can check it out here
the-release-notes.beehiiv.co…
Q1 was the best quarter in @beehiiv company history..
💰 added ~$4.5M ARR
📨 sent 10B+ emails
📈 crossed 50K active users
welcomed some of the world's biggest media brands, upstarts, and creators:
Hearst, The Washington Post, Caper, LA Material, Joanna Stern, Hope King, Kyle Poyar, Tom Sietsema (plus thousands of others)
and shipped dozens of new features. here are a few of my favorites:
beehiiv MCP
on-demand ads
automations v4
dynamic content
website analytics
new media library
digital products v2
recurring email series
AI website builder v2
international currencies
starting Q2 off with a bang later this week 😈
Jake MccGwire 🐝 retweeted
Just tested @beehiiv's MCP and it's really cool
A few things I've done:
> Calculate the subscriber LTV per acq channel (super time consuming to do with excel sheets)
> Analyze the newsletter performance and flag any deliverability drops
> Analyze our acq channels' OR/CTR
Jake MccGwire 🐝 retweeted
Some big personal news today!
- My new venture is called New Things! Newsletters, video, live events. Head to thenewthings.com and sign up. We're hard at work building and will launch this spring.
- I'm partnering with @NBCNews in a big way. As chief Tech Analyst, you'll see more of me on their TV and digital shows, plus New Things content coming to their platforms!
A big focus for @beehiiv recently has been dialling in our Web builder agent to consistently deliver better quality outputs and experiences for users ('Consistently' being the hardest part).
Sounds like we're making progress!
Thanks @Jeff__Benjamin
Truly insane work at @beehiiv. I'm literally just telling the website builder what I want in my homepage layout in a chatbox and it builds sections for me to work inside...
It's way over my head how/why it works so well but incredible product @denk_tweets
Jake MccGwire 🐝 retweeted
Truly insane work at @beehiiv. I'm literally just telling the website builder what I want in my homepage layout in a chatbox and it builds sections for me to work inside...
It's way over my head how/why it works so well but incredible product @denk_tweets
Jake MccGwire 🐝 retweeted
I don't think it's a platform issue - I think it's a broader discussion about that type of very important journalism and the institutions that are needed to support it
independent media outlets like feed me, status, and the thousands of others supported by beehiiv and substack are perfectly suited for the business models that these platforms have unlocked. the shift from a few mainstream outlets who control the narrative to countless smaller independent outlets I believe is a net positive for consumers and for the journalists/entrepreneurs behind them.
but unfortunately the types of important journalism that requires months-long investigative work, or being stationed in dangerous conflict zones isn't super conducive to this new independent media model (at least not yet). this is where the larger media organizations really shine.
I'm self aware enough to acknowledge that beehiiv, as a nascent technology platform focused on building great product and a platform for independent voices to flourish, cannot possibly offer the security clearances or assurances of a NYT/WaPo to properly support those journalists in active war zones.
I also think it's naive and slightly dishonest of substack to think otherwise