Podcast Guests

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WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Only ~2% of Podcast Guests Actually Promote Their Episode
“A hundred percent of the people promise to promote it. Probably two percent of them actually promoted.”
Sean Weisbrot May 23, 2025 ▶ 23:34 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years
Letting guests review recordings beforehand disarms them and encourages candor
“And just like you, I tell them, you will have a chance to review this before it goes public. And I think that disarms people and they say, okay, I can open up because I know if I regret saying something, it's not like talking to a reporter who's gonna re who's…”
Jessica Livingston Jun 27, 2024 ▶ 1:03:38 The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author)
Guest fame is inversely proportional to listener satisfaction on tactical podcasts
“Funny enough, I found that the bigger the name of the guest, Is completely, almost inverse proportional to how well my listeners like the episode. So it doesn't matter. I care more about the content than, you know, the name of the person on the show.”
Chris Hutchins Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 12:31 How to Turn a Podcast into an Empire
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Latka: Promising 1M summer downloads was the only successful guest pitch
“The only way I could get guests of any meaningful value, and I tested many subject lines and many pitches, was to say, this podcast will have a million downloads by the end of the summer.”
Nathan Latka Jun 20, 2016 ▶ 15:11 EP 331: Trump Suicide Predicted By Best-Seller Ryan Holliday, Sites Ego

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