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“Everybody who knew me understood that this was a false accusation that stemmed from the actions of a former joint venture partner who himself was the one paying off soccer officials for his own benefit, and when he got caught, he falsely implicated me.”

“I don't see AI as a threat to the podcast creating community. I think AI will be used as a tool to help everybody Produce better output to save time and to improve their marketing materials.”

“I think we're going to see a new wave of growth driven by the video players, the streamers.”

“Not a single one said that.”

“YouTube most famously has Being the number one platform for video consumption of podcasts, and they had a data point of seven hundred million viewing hours per month going to video podcasts.”

“The whole industry was thought to be worth a hundred and twenty-five million dollars.”

“And then finally we went to the Apple podcast team and actually shared with them the first episode of the show. They loved it so much that they agreed to give us what at the time was called the Beyonce treatment, you know, the takeover of the top carousel of t…”

“It was number one on Apple Podcasts for 30 days straight. It made something like two million listeners within the first month per episode more, way more than we had predicted”

“We closed our CSA run, which had valued the company at twenty-two million dollars”

“And we had hundreds of shareholders including every single employee in Wondery was a stakeholder.”

“I remember when I was 18 with four friends of mine, we bought airtime on a neighborhood radio station. This was late at night on Thursday at 11 p.m., and we had a radio show, and we financed it by selling advertising.”

“There's a moment that I remember in 2015, there's this bank that generated or published a valuation of the whole company of Fox. It's called a sum of the parts valuation, where they go and value each part of the business. And there's FIC, which at the time had…”