Robin Nathaniel

Outsmart the Algorithm: Speed Up Your Substack Success

NBC Sports

vidIQ

TEDx

Diesel

YMCA

TEDx Speaker. Award winning author and social media strategist.

This deep dive breaks down the complete 5/5/5 framework with real examples from my 5K+ subscriber journey.

Master the 5/5/5 Strategy: Explode Your Substack Growth

Through swipe files of top-performing Notes, timing breakdowns, and engagement multipliers.

Substack Notes Mastery: Human Connection Blueprint

Uncover energy-preserving workflows and rhythms from my 20-year career, including batching rituals, and recovery cycles.

Sustainable Creator Cadence: Flow Without Burnout

Build and execute proven AI-powered playbooks to accelerate the growth of your subscription business.

Growth Advisor | ex-Faire/Quizlet/Ibotta

Perplexity

Gamma

ElevenLabs

Chess.com

Imprint

Phil Carter

CEO of Elemental Growth and former product leader at Faire, Quizlet, and Ibotta.

Winter 2026

Summer 2026

Consumer subscription apps are easy to launch but hard to scale. This explains why there are hundreds of thousands of them in the Apple and Google app stores, but fewer than 50 that have ever reached $1B+ valuations.These businesses face several challenges:1. Overreliance on paid ads2. High subscriber churn rates3. ARPU is low and hard to grow The best subscription apps overcome these headwinds by:1. Building their businesses on a unique and enduring core value promise2. Harnessing it to drive a Subscription Value Loop that improves LTV/CAC and Payback Period through three steps:- Value Creation: Quickly connecting new users to the app’s core value promise- Value Delivery: Cost-efficiently distributing the app to users through paid and organic channels- Value Capture: Converting free users into subscribers to generate revenue that can be reinvested into the business In this course, which Lenny Rachitsky called the "new bible" for anyone building a consumer subscription app, you will learn how to harness the power of the Subscription Value Loop along with dozens of proven frameworks, strategies, and tactics from category-leading subscription apps to accelerate your own business.

Supercharge the growth of your consumer subscription business

Learn and apply the Subscription Value Loop framework

Assess your app vs. industry benchmarks to identify major growth opportunities

Improve your premium product experience to generate more value for subscribers

Leverage proven paid and organic acquisition strategies to accelerate growth

Optimize paywalls, pricing, packaging, payments, and promotions to boost revenue

Apply lessons in live cases with leaders from Gamma, Tinder, Calm and AllTrails

Founders and execs: Consumer subscription CEOs and product and marketing leaders who want to maximize growth for their businesses.

People managers: VPs and directors managing cross-functional teams responsible for subscriber acquisition, retention, and monetization.

Senior individual contributors (ICs): PMs, marketers, and other ICs working on growth teams at consumer subscription companies.

A two-week sprint to rebuild your Personal OS, master the "Learning to Learn" loop, and turn your core expertise into a 5x force multiplier.

Product Leader and Super IC at Google

Google

Disney+ Hotstar

Zynga

Anshumani Ruddra

Cohort I

Cohort 2

You're stuck in the coordination trap. Meetings, approvals, stakeholder alignment consume your weeks - but actual product work feels distant. Meanwhile, AI-empowered teams are shipping faster.This isn't your fault - the model itself is collapsing.Flattened orgs, smaller teams, and AI-driven workflows have created a new reality:The most valuable product leaders are not managers, they are high-output individuals who can take a problem from insight and strategy → functioning prototype → live productThe market is shifting toward the product Super IC - someone who can build momentum without waiting for permission, resources, or headcount.This course is not a tool tutorial. You can find those on YouTube. This is a system rebuild. Over two weeks, you will:Build a Personal Agentic OS 🤖<ul><li>⚙️ Automate meeting synthesis, PRDs, research, and stakeholder updates.</li><li>🤖 Deploy personal agents that triage signal, surface decisions, and keep your product narrative live.</li><li>🧠 Free up 10+ hours a week for real thinking.</li></ul>Master the Velocity Loop 🎯 (Learning to Learn)<ul><li>⚡ Adopt any new AI prototyping tool in hours, not weeks.</li><li>👁️ Spot signal vs hype early and act.</li><li>🚀 Move from static specs to functional prototypes.</li></ul>

Stop Trading Your Craft for Coordination. Start Multiplying Impact.

Rebuild Your Personal OS 

Master the "Velocity Loop" (Learning to Learn)

This course is not for new PMs who are still building their product muscle - strategy all the way to execution.

Your product management foundational skills are in place

This is not for people looking for a passive learning experience. This is intense and requires you to actually build things.

You are eager to learn actively

Product Leaders (VPs/ Directors) who are tired of being a "Coordinator" and want to return to building.

Founders &amp; Solopreneurs who need to act as a 10-person product team with zero headcount. You need speed and independence.

Staff Engineers &amp; Designers who want to move upstream into product strategy and ownership without leaving your technical edge.

Learn the ins and outs of the LinkedIn ecosystem and how to become a top 1% creator on the platform.

Creator | 2 x TEDx Speaker | 30 under 30

Joel Hansen

Marketing Advisor, 2 Time TEDx Speaker, 10M+ Impressions

February 2023 1-Day

Learn How to Leverage Your Story on LinkedIn to Unlock Opportunitites. 

June 2026

<h3>Turn LinkedIn Into Your Storytelling Lever</h3>LinkedIn isn’t just a platform; it’s a platform of attention, decision makers and opportunities. Here's the #'s: <ul><li>1B+ people are on LinkedIn</li><li>Only ~1% actually post content</li><li>The average user makes over $75,000</li><li>6 people are hired every minute</li><li>Over 100 million messages are sent daily</li><li>and the weirdest part - only 1% of users post content weekly </li></ul>That's right. 99% of people are scrolling. Very few are telling a story<h3>What You Need Is Better Storytelling </h3>In This Class, You’ll Learn To:<ul><li>Write posts people actually read</li><li>Turn your experience into authority</li><li>Create content that leads to DMs, new friends, partnerships and hires</li></ul><h3>The Opportunity</h3>Organic reach is still wide open, because most people aren’t posting.But this window is closing.<h3>The Math</h3>Better storytelling → more attention → more opportunitiesSee you in class.

Scale Your Storytelling in a 1 Day Workshop

Gain the 10 habits of LinkedIn storytelling

Learn the ins and outs of the Linkedin ecosystem

Leverage your brand to open doors

Meet other content creators and CEOs

Founder &amp; CEOs: Your company's voice is established but you need to start building your own.

Entrepreneurs &amp; Speakers:&nbsp;You’re a builder who wants a free distribution channel that doesn't require guru ads.

Consultants &amp; Board Members: You're a service-based provider who wants free PR to attract clients while you sleep.

Turn information overload into a Knowledge Engine that talks back. Go from drowning in unread PDFs to shipping high-fidelity AI artifacts.

Solutions Architect & AI Educator

Thoughts Brewing

HubSpot

United Way

MANTECH

Damien Griffin

Solutions Architect & Co-Founder at Thoughts Brewing, LLC

Cohort 5

Cohort 7

This course is for AI-curious professionals who are tired of LLMs hallucinating about their own business data. You’ve used the big bots, but you’re ready for a tool that stays grounded in your specific files, not the entire internet.You should pull up a chair if you are:<ul><li>An overwhelmed researcher or lead sitting on a pile of unread PDFs and half-baked notes.</li><li>A solutions-oriented builder who needs to turn raw data into interactive podcasts, briefing docs, and infographics without the usual tech headache.</li><li>A busy professional who has played with NotebookLM but wants a structured way to master the non-intuitive interface and see what else it can actually do.</li></ul>We are looking for active builders who already have a basic handle on how to talk to a bot. We won’t be covering "Prompting 101" here, we are diving straight into building a Knowledge Engine that actually talks back.This is not for the AI absolute beginner or anyone looking for a tool to browse the web for generic answers. This is for the person who wants to tame information chaos and turn their personal library into a competitive advantage.

Master NotebookLM: Turn Data Chaos Into Precise AI Artifacts in a Weekend

Build a grounded Knowledge Engine

Transform raw data into executive-level artifacts

Generate custom Audio Overviews for hands-free learning

Visualize complex info with Mind Maps and Infographics

Navigate the 3-panel interface like a systems pro

Pressure-test your mastery with AI-generated Quizzes

You should have experience using tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to ensure we can focus on NotebookLM-specific workflows.

Proficiency in AI Prompting

A personal or Google Workspace account is required to access the NotebookLM platform during the live sessions.

Active Google Account

Access to a desktop computer (preferred) and a stable Zoom connection for the live interactive portions of the weekend.

Standard Tech Setup

Leaders &amp; Project Managers needing reliable AI. Build a grounded system that uses your data to automate workflows.

Founders synthesizing research fast. Turn private notes and transcripts into professional audio and text reports.

Operators &amp; Researchers managing massive document libraries. Extract precise insights and summarize complex data without manual effort.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Introduction and Housekeeping

Why Substack is the Future of Social Media

About the Speaker: Robin Nathaniel

The Shift from Followers to Subscribers

The Power of a Single Connection

The Quiet Migration: Why Big Names are Moving to Substack

Substack's Infinity Gauntlet: A Platform with Unmatched Power

Mastering the Triple Five Framework for Substack Growth

The Human Connection Blueprint: Building a Loyal Audience

Flow Without Burnout: Finding a Sustainable Creator Cadence

The PACE Framework for Sustainable Content Creation

The Best Time to Post on Substack Notes

Live Q&A with Robin Nathaniel

Executives and senior leaders who set strategy, lead teams, and drive organizational outcomes.

Marketers who drive brand awareness, customer acquisition, and growth across channels.

Developing leadership skills — inspiring teams, building culture, navigating organizational complexity, and driving results through others.

Creating and distributing valuable content to attract, engage, and convert target audiences.

Driving user acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization through product-led growth strategies.

Content creators producing digital media and building audiences.

Building professional visibility, thought leadership, and a public reputation that opens doors.

Outsmart the Algorithm: Speed Up Your Substack Success

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

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Robin Nathaniel