podcasts

“The one on the left retired because he made eight million dollars from podcasts in one year.”

“If you're comfortable telling like, you know, everything, you know, or think to be true on a podcast, then it actually literally means like you have purely conventional beliefs.”

“Because I don't think people are really custom curating these perfect lists for themselves. I think only tech early adopters are doing that sort of thing.”

“I mean, still, it's like, 80% of the world still doesn't know what the hell this is. It still has some, a lot of room to grow.”

“The top 50 podcasts have something like 90% of the traffic of the share, and that, you know, more and more people are creating podcasts every day, and they're actually creating a show about, you know, what are the gems that are not in the top 50.”

“The video and the TV space and even the movie space as well is there's an explosion of creation happening there. And the same is, is absolutely true for podcasts.”

“You know, people know podcasts more than they ever have before, but there really has been a steady growth for about 10 years. Like, it's been slowly climbing, and I think it just hit that weird threshold effect where enough people know it that it feels like ev…”

“I can tell you as somebody who does a show, the things that work so far are basically being on other podcasts. The thing that introduced me to new audience. Radio lab featured my show about three and a half years ago. And it was a huge thing for me. So that's …”

“I've seen so many podcasts fail and they often fail because somebody wants to get out there and be like, I'm going to make a successful podcast. And I don't think that is a motivation that sustains you or the audience.”

“The listener is with you for an hour every week, maybe more than that. And so it's very different than reading a newsletter for five minutes or stumbling upon a blog post randomly online and spending a couple of minutes where you don't even know who wrote it. …”

“You actually have to think of it as a product. Who's your market? Who are your customers? What are you building for them? How are you finding them? How are they finding you? How are you getting them? Or are they staying? There's just the basic questions of any…”

“The three hour podcast doesn't work if it's everything it, you know, if you have to stop every five seconds because some, you know, you have to accuse somebody of saying something racist, right? Like, so this like, you know, or sexist or whatever, the, this sp…”

“And we've got, actually, we're flanking mainstream media with tweets and podcasts, right? Ultra short form and ultra long form content, where they don't have as much establishment oomph, right? We figured out the formula that works, which is individual over in…”