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How I Built This 22
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every year every show How I Built This 22 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 10 the a16z Podcast 10 My First Million 7 Founder's Journal 5 TBPN 3 the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
Lenny's Podcast 1 20VC 1 
Capital Allocators 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Serial comes up on How I Built This, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, the a16z Podcast, My First Million, Founder's Journal
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:42 Mike Mignano Kind of like when, if you remember Cereal and kind of Grantland and all that stuff, we got into it and we realized that it was really hard to make them.
Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
- ▶ 20:25 Ben Gilbert Serial.
(July 2021) Ben Chestnut: From Side Business to $12 Billion – The Accidental Triumph of Mailchimp
- ▶ 53:01 Ben Chestnut We were, we were sponsoring, um, podcasts, um, public radio shows, and, um, you know, that, that is ultimately what led to, um, us sponsoring Serial.
- ▶ 54:47 Ben Chestnut So when they came up with Serial, they just said, who should we approach to run ads for this? 6 times in the scene
7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
- ▶ 1:05:03 Shaan Puri It's like the serial podcast, but it's this woman investigating these claims, and she's like, you know, like an NPR skeptical, let me call it, right?
2 Trends Hidden in Plain Sight (+ $1M ideas)
- ▶ 21:37 Shaan Puri And then she hears serial podcast. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:05 Shaan Puri So, um, most of these that started, they were just audio-only podcasts like Serial. 3 times in the scene
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 30:23 John Coogan The era of journalistic podcasts like Serial and Slow Burn is fading away, and even the schlocky true crime and horror standbys like My Favorite Murder and Last Podcast on the Left no longer hold as much cultural sway and brand power as…
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 51:51 John Coogan There's shows that are scripted, like, uh, you know, serial on NPR.
This $50M/Yr Side Hustle Is On Track To Make $1 Billion By 2030
Wondery: Hernan Lopez
- ▶ 2:44 Guy Raz That show was season one of Serial, and it would help usher in a podcast boom that inspired 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:20 Guy Raz Everything changed for everybody with cereal. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:08 Guy Raz But after becoming a fan of podcasts like Serial, he starts to think about launching his own podcast company.
Ted Seides – The Art of the Interview (EP.330)
- ▶ 3:35 Ted Seides Bill Simmons, serial, or capital allocators.
How Founders Should Be Integrating AI To Their Business
- ▶ 5:05 Alex Lieberman Or is this literally just like the podcast equivalent of Serial, the show that just put kind of a category onto the map?
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 50:29 Sriram Krishnan I want to be, I want to do the next serial, but you can't do that.
An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)
- ▶ 1:04:56 Yuhki Yamashita And so I rarely listen to podcasts, but the two that I, I have listened to in earnest was, first one was Serial a long time ago, and then, and yours.
The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
- ▶ 1:24:26 Alexis Ohanian You remember when Serial went viral? 2 times in the scene
Mailchimp: The $12 Billion Email Giant
- ▶ 8:56 Alex Lieberman Well, MailChimp was early on that train, and they were the first advertiser with Serial. 4 times in the scene
Mailchimp: Ben Chestnut
- ▶ 52:34 Ben Chestnut We were, we were sponsoring, um, podcasts, um, public radio shows, and, um, you know, that, that is ultimately what led to, um, us sponsoring Serial.
- ▶ 54:20 Ben Chestnut So when they came up with Serial, they just said, who should we approach to run ads for this? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:35 Guy Raz By the way, back in 2015, when people were still talking about their viral ad on Cereal, the podcast's producer, Julie Snyder, revealed the identity of the person behind MailChimp.
a16z Podcast | A Podcast about Podcasts
- ▶ 1:52 Roman Mars There's a few of these, these benchmarks, like with, you know, with Serial and with Marc Maron, I mean, I think they do represent something really big.
- ▶ 4:52 Sonal Chokshi But I want to listen today to something like Serial.
- ▶ 9:54 Roman Mars You know, I think much to the chagrin, I mean, it was of, of Serial, like Serial did not welcome this, but you know, that show I think was propelled because of online communities on Reddit trying to solve the murder, and they did not…
- ▶ 15:20 Roman Mars There's something about it that I think is already changing, and I think, like, I think we owe a lot to Serial in that effect. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:52 Ryan Hoover And it may not be massive, like serial, but there's probably some niche podcasts out there that you might personally love, or maybe a group of people like yourself love.
When Advertising Isn't Enough
- ▶ 9:43 Connie Chan Now, in 2014, the first big breakout podcast hit was released in the States, called Serial. 3 times in the scene
Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:10 Alex Blumberg Then I thought, like, I was in this for a long time, you know, like, starting, like, I remember when we first put our, first put out This American Life as a podcast, and there was, like, I think, I don't know, 5000 people listened to it or… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:37 Alex Blumberg Serial inadvertently sort of like cracked that open and, and, and it's just been sort of like, it's been nonstop ever since. 4 times in the scene
Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:11 Leah Culver The show, I mean, we've had Serial, um, which was a big, big popular show, um, a big popular podcast, but, um, where, you know, and, and it's really a chicken and egg problem.
- ▶ 43:56 Craig Cannon Because the continuity becomes an issue if you're just, like, cutting all over the place, whereas if you looked at the, uh, the time and, like, the time something was recorded for the serial and then, like, placed it back into the episode,…
Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:02:40 Craig Cannon It's like what we were talking about before, like the Andreessen Horowitz podcast competes with Serial.
20 VC 078: BETAWORKS WEEK: Matt Hartman, Director of Seed Investments @ Betaworks
- ▶ 22:23 Matt Hartman And you can see, I think, Serial said donate if you want.