SoundCloud
company on 16 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes · said 85 times in 66 episodes since 2013
Top Founders 25 
20VC 18 
My First Million 7 
the a16z Podcast 6 
the Neon Show 5 
the MAD Podcast 5 
Lenny's Podcast 3 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 3 
How I Built This 3 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2 
the Knowledge Project 2 
TBPN 2 
Acquired 1 
the Pitch 1 
Another Podcast 1 
We Live to Build 1
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Top Founders 2520VC 18My First Million 7the a16z Podcast 6the MAD Podcast 5the Neon Show 5How I Built This 3the Startup Ideas Podcast 38 more shows
2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Product: On Running's CPO on How to Create Emotion Through Product | Why 99% of Products Fail and How to Create Cults Around Products | The Biggest Product Mistakes On Have Made & Lessons Learned with Gérald Marolf
- Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- #95 You Asked. Investors Answered. Now What?
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2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2022 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah
- The Story Behind Building 100x Entrepreneur Ft. Siddhartha Ahluwalia & Nansi Mishra
- How Successful Startups Got Their First 1000 Customers (Uber, Product Hunt & More) (#362)
- Predicting the Future of Web3
- How to Leverage Nostalgia and Win at Marketing with Danny Trinh
- Anything Is Possible with Dave Friedberg | Where It Happens
- Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
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2021 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2020 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Behind The Scenes: Making of Prime Ventures podcast & 100x Entrepreneur podcast with Amit Somani
- How to Navigate the Upcoming Depression | My First Million Podcast | 03-24-2020
- The acceleration of ecommerce habits
- SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?
- Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- 1707 How He Cheated Growth With $5k Acquisition on Day 1
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2019 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2018 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: USV's Rebecca Kaden on Whether Venture Returns Can Be Made At Scale In Consumer Today & How To Navigate Consumer Investing In A World of Amazon
- 20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- Melissa & Doug: Melissa And Doug Bernstein (2016)
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2017 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Microbes, Robots, and Ambition - Robin Sloan on His Novel Sourdough · Y Combinator
- Content Marketing Tips from Experts at First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz · Y Combinator
- 20VC: USV's Andy Weissman on The Future of The VC Industry, Why USV Does Not Vote On Investment Decisions & Why VCs Should Be Invisible
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2016 27 mentions in 22 episodes 1 per episode
- King of Podcasts Tells Us How He Launched 5, Made Millions, with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
- Frat Guy Takes 2K a Month Side Project to 10Mil a Year Media Company, EP 286: Madison Wickham
- EP 461: $2m Raised, SpokenLayer Turning Blogs Into Audio Content with CEO Will Mayo
- LeadGenius $700K MRR, 200 Customers
- 20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
- EP 311: Memebership Site Secrets with Kat Loterzo
- He's 31, Doing $700k/mo By Automating The Sales Process WIth $8m Raised, EP 265: Anand Kulkarni
- Technical Co-Founder Hits $35k in MRR, Won't Sell for $10m Today, EP 264: Gil Allouche
- 14 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
2015 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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4 statements about SoundCloud, every show
Shulman: SoundCloud's growth is limited by the difficulty of traditional music creation
“Where SoundCloud goes wrong, I mean, there's two things, like, one is by no fault of SoundCloud, it's like, it's still hard to make music and so, so you're kind of limited there, and it's still kind of, there's the creators, and there's the consumers, and they…”
Volpi: Index Ventures invested in Elasticsearch one month after discovering it
“The next day I called Elasticsearch. We ended up investing in the company a month later, and then it went public.”
Choksi: Repurposing the same content across every platform is a mistake
“I think people make the mistake of thinking marketers love this dream of repurposing. I'm gonna repurpose it on every platform, and it's like, actually, no, because what you do, what works on YouTube, what works on SoundCloud, what works on Twitter, what works…”
Seton-Rogers is hugely bullish on European music tech opportunities
“Europe is producing the bulk of them. So think about it. So Spotify, Shazam, SoundCloud, Deezer, Songkick, I mean, these are all UK, European businesses that are leading the way. So I'm hugely bullish about what can take place in the music space.”