NPR
organization on 14 shows · 11 statements across 7 episodes · said 2,454 times in 444 episodes since 2015
How I Built This 2347 
All-In 26 
Top Founders 23 
the Green Blueprint 8 
the a16z Podcast 8 
TBPN 5 
Big Technology 4 
Lenny's Podcast 3 
My First Million 3 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 3 
20VC 3 
Latent Space 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
Catalyst 1
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How I Built This 2,347All-In 26Top Founders 23the a16z Podcast 8the Green Blueprint 8TBPN 5Big Technology 420VC 36 more shows
2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 13 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
- Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
- (July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp
- Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- Figma: Dylan Field
- 7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
- Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- 2 Trends Hidden in Plain Sight (+ $1M ideas)
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 26 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
- Mythical: Rhett and Link
- What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- Inflated GDP?, Google earnings, How the media lost trust, Rogan/Trump search controversy, Election!
- Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
- Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)
- American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 25 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- Hamas vs. Israel Rewrites Social Media Norms
- What’s driving a surge in renewables opposition?
- Etsy: Rob Kalin
- Why electric cars are driving the auto strikes
- How The Rideshare Guy Turned Uber, Lyft Drivers into a Media Empire
- Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger: The Founders of Instagram Reveal their New Project "Artifact" | E981 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout (2020)
- Wondery: Hernan Lopez
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 49 mentions in 17 episodes 3 per episode
- Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
- M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur (2020)
- Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
- Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
- Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019)
- Dang Foods: Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn
- Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson (2019)
- Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 443 mentions in 78 episodes 6 per episode
- Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald
- KAYAK: Paul English
- ARRAY: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay
- Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
- Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
- Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
- inov-8: Wayne Edy
- Meet The HIBT Fellows: Katie Mitchell & Celena Gill
- 70 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 555 mentions in 110 episodes 5 per episode
- How I Built Resilience: Morra Aarons-Mele of Women Online
- Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
- Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
- ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd (2018)
- Jo Loves: Jo Malone CBE
- Impossible Foods: Pat Brown
- Video Artist: Casey Neistat
- Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson (2018)
- 102 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 340 mentions in 62 episodes 5 per episode
- Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
- Framebridge: Susan Tynan (2017)
- SoulCycle: Julie Rice & Elizabeth Cutler
- Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown (2018)
- LÄRABAR: Lara Merriken (2018)
- Shopify: Tobias Lütke
- Dave's Killer Bread: Dave Dahl
- Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger
- 54 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 373 mentions in 55 episodes 7 per episode
- ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd
- WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018)
- DoorDash: Tony Xu
- Bobbi Brown Cosmetics: Bobbi Brown
- Melissa & Doug: Melissa And Doug Bernstein (2016)
- Betterment: Jon Stein
- Carol's Daughter: Lisa Price (2018)
- Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
- 47 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 445 mentions in 59 episodes 8 per episode
2016 163 mentions in 21 episodes 8 per episode
- Patagonia: Yvon Chouinard
- Warby Parker: Dave Gilboa & Neil Blumenthal
- Melissa & Doug: Melissa And Doug Bernstein
- Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban
- Angie's List: Angie Hicks
- Southwest Airlines: Herb Kelleher
- Music Mogul: L.A. Reid
- Samuel Adams: Jim Koch
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
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11 statements about NPR, every show
Hays: Meta considered buying Kalshi before developing prediction market app
“Apparently, according to Bobby Allen over at NPR, meta considered buying Calci before it's developing its own prediction market app.”
Sacks: NPR would hire another left-leaning CEO if Katherine Maher is fired
“If they end up firing Catherine Marr, they're going to hire someone just like her. I mean, they're going to have the same views.”
Calacanis: US should phase out public broadcasting funding within two years
“They should just cut NPR and all this public broadcasting stuff loose over the next year or two, wind it down and let them fend for themselves in the new media landscape.”
Weiss: Alternative media hunger driven by falling trust in legacy outlets
“But I think there's a growing audience of people who used to read the New York Times every morning or listen to NPR in their car, and now they're saying, I don't really trust what I'm hearing in those places. Where can I go? And that's frankly where, where com…”
Raz: Rejection as NPR anchor led to creating How I Built This
“And had that not happened, you know, I wouldn't have gone on to collaborate with Ted To do the TED radio hour, and then create how I built this, and wow, co-create wow in the world”
Blumberg: Planet Money Sold 20,000 T-Shirts and Raised Nearly $600,000
“We sold, like, 20,000 t-shirts. We made, like, almost 600,000 dollars.”
Blumberg: Successful Podcasts Should Be For-Profit Rather Than Non-Profit
“With planet money, I was like, no, there's, you can turn a profit on planet money. That's like advertisers want to be in that show. The audience is big enough. It can be profitable. And if it can, it should be. It doesn't make sense to force it into a structur…”
Blumberg: Media founders undervalue institutional support behind their success
“I think I was a risky venture. You know, like, there's not that many places that are set up to, like, take that kind of risk. Even though I didn't feel like a risk, even though I felt like, well, I know how to do this, and, like, obviously I've done it before,…”
Blumberg: NPR was sitting on financial gold with Planet Money
“I felt like we were sitting on gold. I felt like we, they recognized the editorial gold, but I felt like we were sitting on financial gold with Planet Money, and people love it, and it's brand new, and it's different, and they're consuming it in a different wa…”
Wertheim: Media companies now embrace journalist moonlighting across platforms
“When I started, if you wanted to do an NPR interview, you would have to jump through hoops and get signed approval from a manager's manager. And now I think there's much more of an acknowledgement and a reasonable policy that as long as something isn't directl…”