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Opinion
Swix: YouTube is the best podcast platform over Spotify and Apple
“YouTube is the best podcasting platform. It is not MP threes. It is not Apple podcasts. It is not Spotify. It's YouTube. And it's just the social layer of recommendations and the existing habit that people have of logging onto YouTube and getting, getting that…”
Opinion
Swix: Spotify is not very good at podcasting
“Let's just say Spotify is not very good at podcasting. I have a documented dislike for their podcast features.”
What-if
Beauchamp: Spotify would retain 85% of users with only five artists
“At the end of the day, if we all go on like Spotify or like, imagine if Spotify only had the top five musicians, I think it would retain over 85% of its existing users.”
Opinion
Swyx: Spotify and Apple disrespect RSS feeds to close the podcasting ecosystem
“Don't host it on Anchor, by the way. If people don't host it on Spotify. Don't host it on Apple Podcasts. It's these people don't respect the RSS feed. Anyway I have very strong feelings about, like, preserving the sanctity of the RSS feed for open podcasting,…”
Opinion
Daniel Ek Is a Generational CEO Among Swedish Startups
“Overall, I mean, I think he was a great CEO, like, definitely, you know, up there, like, generational CEO, at least for, like, Swedish startups.”
Assertion Supported
Martin: Andrej Karpathy launched Spotify podcast using NotebookLM Wikipedia summaries
“I think that's what Karpathy did, right? Like he has now a Spotify channel called histories of mysteries, which is basically like, he just took like interesting stuff from Wikipedia and made audio overviews out of it.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Rizk: Daily Hacker News recap hit Spotify's top 30 tech podcasts
“I think the fact that, so obviously we do the Hacker News recap, the fact that we did that, and that it is daily, actually just helped us reach that top 30 tech podcast on Spotify.”