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every year anyone Guy Raz 49Don Katz 11Ramses Alcaide 1Otis Chandler 1Jamie Siminoff 1
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When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable
- ▶ 18:50 Ramses Alcaide So a few of the things that people are building, for example, uh, the first one is with audible, right?
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Roku: Anthony Wood
Culver's: Craig Culver
ButcherBox: Mike Salguero
HIBT Lab! Burn Rate: Andy Dunn
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- ▶ 1:47 Guy Raz He just made it a much easier and more user-friendly experience by coming up with Audible.
- ▶ 56:33 Otis Chandler Amazon made it a little easy in that they told us they would want to run us as an independent subsidiary and an independent brand, just like they run Audible and IMDB and Zappos and now Twitch, and they have a long list of track record of…
Audible: Don Katz
- ▶ 0:02 Guy Raz So you guys go public in the fall of 1999, and by the spring of 2000, the dot-com bubble bursts, it crashes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how in the era of clunky cassette tapes, Don Katz created a whole new kind of audio experience, online and on demand, with Audible. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:18 Don Katz I've, I've said that his voice was like a coal car coming out of a mine, and I would just be mesmerized, and, uh, and he was a big supporter, and, uh, you know, later, even the audible transition, right at the time he died, he was…
- ▶ 11:54 Don Katz And I get a telegram saying, go to Spain, and I'm not so sure anyone I work with at Audible or my children know what a telegram even looks like.
- ▶ 24:39 Don Katz To create a company that we decided should be called Audible Words. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:55 Guy Raz What will become Audible? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:33 Guy Raz So, I mean, did, did anybody make money off of Audible going public? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:53 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Don was able to chart a new path for Audible with help from one of the smartest and scariest people in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 48:20 Guy Raz So, it's 2001, the dot-com bubble has burst, Audible's stock price has plummeted, and Don Katz is trying to stay calm. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:13 Don Katz We got rid of the audible mobile player and let that become the artifact it needed to be.
- ▶ 1:02:22 Don Katz People started discovering this, this thing called Audible, and we started to build up our teams, we started to expand internationally, and, uh, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:10 Guy Raz In 2007, your annual revenue at Audible was like one hundred and ten million dollars. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:00 Guy Raz That's Don Katz, founder and executive chairman of Audible. 3 times in the scene
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
- ▶ 1:22:30 Jamie Siminoff Like I, you know, with audible and IMDB and Zappos