Wondery

“Not a single one said that.”

“In the middle of that happening, we got approach finally looked like we were going to raise money, and we, one major company agreed to essentially fund our CSA at five million dollars at a twenty-five million dollar valuation.”

“We, they came with an offer that was four times when we had raised that.”

“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…”

“I stopped counting the no's after I hit 50 on venture capitals”

“One of the most tried and true things in Hollywood is that you need to have a satisfying ending to a story. And when you don't have a clear ending, people will not recommend the show to other people.”

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

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

“Fox, and so they put a, 250,000 dollar check.”

“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”

“My timing was, ah, really, really fortuitous in that if I tried to launch Wanderer, the exact same version of Wanderer in 2018, I don't know that it would have gotten to where it did.”