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Katz: First Audible download occurred on October 31, 1997
“The first download when it finally happened was in, I remember October 31st of 97, it was Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus, the self-help book, and I remember it was to a customer in Cave Creek, Arizona, and that was, and it was done at that then pre…”
Katz: Audible's first player cost $208 to manufacture and sold for $215
“But it cost us 208 dollars to make that little device, and we tried to sell it for 215 dollars.”
Katz: Audible stock collapsed from ~$29 to four cents in 2000
“The stock price, you know, which was once 29 dollars or something, it went down to four cents at the end of 2000.”
Katz: Robin Williams bought ~500k Audible shares before IPO
“Robin Williams had come in and bought, like, 500,000 shares of common stock before it went public.”
Katz: Audible raised ~$40M at IPO with 5,700 customers
“We walked away with almost forty million dollars. We had 5700 customers.”