Alex Blumberg
7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 21, 2019 by Alex Blumberg · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Oct 21, 2019
Blumberg: Early This American Life Ran on Ira Glass and Three Producers
“And being the administrative assistant at This American Life, it was, like, Ira and three producers, and they were trying to get out an hour of, like, highly produced radio every single week, and they were just, like, completely up to their necks in work, and …”
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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,…”
Oct 21, 2019 bullish
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…”
Oct 21, 2019
Matt Lieber: Gimlet's Success Came Primarily From Luck, Privilege, and Timing
“I think it's mostly luck but not in the obvious way. Like, I think I think for me it was the luck of, like, being born into the family I was born into at the time that I was. So I had the luck of being in a family where my parents sent me, like, paid for my co…”