podcasting

“One of the superpowers of podcasting is it's authenticity scaled.”

“All content, because there were a limited number of channels and a limited number of time slots, everything had to be produced for the lowest common denominator, and now you can opt into your niche and find the highest quality content in that niche.”

“But the better way to think about audio books and podcasting is it's really around a business model mostly. So one way to frame it instead would be Podcasting is ad supported audio and audiobooks is paid audio.”

“So there are no breakout hits. No episode is ever twice as big as your next best episode.”

“They totally bootstrap their way to become the scale player in podcasting. So to the extent that there is a big pile of money waiting to be the scale player in podcasting, they're well positioned to make it given the half billion dollars or three quarters of a…”

“In the media business, in podcasting, You can grow your audience, and thus your revenue, and thus your importance in the world. All outputs can scale completely independently of your inputs.”