Matt Lieber

7 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 21, 2019 by Matt Lieber · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Oct 21, 2019 bullish
Insight
Lieber: Every new medium produces new defining media companies
“Every time a new medium comes about, New media companies get built. This is true across the last, you know, hundred years of history, and I thought someone will build a defining media company around on-demand digital audio”
Matt Lieber Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 41:59 Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
Oct 21, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Blumberg: No investors offered funding until Matt Lieber joined Gimlet
“Nobody was offering me money until, I literally, nobody, I don't think anybody offered money until Matt and I teamed up. I think when I was doing it by myself, I didn't even get to that point.”
Alex Blumberg Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 40:43 Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
Oct 21, 2019
Disclosure
Blumberg: Initially offered co-founder Matt Lieber only 1% to 10% equity
“I think it was, I think I said in the range of one to 10. I'm key to the success of the company, and I want to feel I want to feel that that is reflected in the cap table, I guess.”
Alex Blumberg Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 48:21 Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
Oct 21, 2019
Insight
Lieber: Each podcast functions as an individual business requiring upfront investment
“Because the way the podcasts work is you launch a podcast, and when you launch it has an audience of zero. But you have to pay the people to make the podcast, and they're going to work for you for a few months before you're able to launch. And then once the po…”
Matt Lieber Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 56:47 Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
Oct 21, 2019 positive
Insight
Lieber: Wealth from selling Gimlet didn't bring happiness, but brought safety
“Well, I'm really f***ing rich, and it turns out money doesn't make you happy. But it does make you safe.”
Matt Lieber Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 1:09:51 Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
Oct 21, 2019
Disclosure
Lieber: Gimlet initially planned to reach profitability on its $1.5M seed round
“Well, when we raised the first million and a half dollars of financing, our plan was that that would take us through to profitability, and then we would fund our growth through profits.”
Matt Lieber Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 54:29 Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
Oct 21, 2019
Opinion
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…”
Matt Lieber Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 1:11:46 Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
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