NPR

“As you well know here at NPR, it's the most expensive format that you can do.”

“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,…”

“We sold, like, 20,000 t-shirts. We made, like, almost 600,000 dollars.”

“With planet money, I was like, no, there's, you can turn a profit on planet money. That's like advertisers want to be in that show. The audience is big enough. It can be profitable. And if it can, it should be. It doesn't make sense to force it into a structur…”

“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…”

“And had that not happened, you know, I wouldn't have gone on to collaborate with Ted To do the TED radio hour, and then create how I built this, and wow, co-create wow in the world”