What to build first: Audience or Product?

Dylan R.
4 min readMar 23, 2022

The chicken-or-the-egg question of the creator economy:

“What should I build first: an audience or a product?”

And here’s my super lame cop-out answer: it depends.

(Yeah that answer’s NOT going viral…)

The truth is, both can work — and the right strategy for you will depend on your situation and how quickly you want…

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Dylan R.

Teaching you how to start + grow + monetize a newsletter — as I share how I’m doing it. https://www.growthcurrency.net