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Bill Simmons Was Shocked Spotify Paid $200M For Gimlet's $10M Revenue
“And then they bought Gimlet and they bought Gimlet for like two hundred million dollars. And we were like, wow, Gimlet makes like Ten million dollars a year. They just got two hundred million dollars. Like, what the hell? Like, we were way more profitable than…”
Simmons: ESPN was much more political and sinister than Spotify
“I think ESPN was way more political and way more sinister. Spotify's not sinister, but it's also a big company that has a lot of opposing objectives”
Copeland: Spotify generates real revenue for artists through sheer streaming volume
“Spotify now, because there's billions of people who have signed on to it, that zero, zero, zero, one cent times X billion actually is real money. So you can make money now with having, being on some of these platforms.”
Lieber: Podcasting needed better discovery and analytics to reach full potential
“There were two, like, Basically, industry-level challenges that we were confronting along with every other podcast company, and one was audiences are still having a really hard time discovering new podcasts. Like, if you ask people how they find out new podcas…”
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.”