Blumberg: Media founders undervalue institutional support behind their success
Alex Blumberg · Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber · Oct 21, 2019 · at 30:56
Gimlet Media co-founder Alex Blumberg reflects on pitching internal podcast spinouts at NPR before leaving to found his own company.
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“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, so. But, like, no, that's not true. I've done it inside institutions whose contributions I was way undervaluing, you know. If you're NPR, that's a lot of risk to take.”
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