Building a Platform to Save the Internet

Tyler Bainbridge is the founder of Perfectly Imperfect, a social magazine and app with 400,000+ users built to help people discover culture outside of algorithms. In this episode, we get into how he grew the platform from a free newsletter to a business attracting guests such as Charli xcx, Francis Ford Coppola and The Rizzler. __ Perfectly Imperfect Website: https://www.pi.fyi/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perfectlyimperfect Tyler Bainbridge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tubbytyinthetub/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerbainbridge X: https://x.com/tubbytyinthetub __ Timestamps 00:00 Introducing Tyler Bainbridge 01:23 Escaping the algorithm 07:41 Leaving Substack to build a unique platform 12:32 Growing to over 400,000 users 16:21 Biggest milestone guests 19:40 How Perfectly Imperfect makes money 22:28 The meaning of community 29:02 Building a dedicated team