Anchor

“And I think that was a really big part of why we got so much hosting market share so quickly, because it was such an insane benefit over the other platforms, which otherwise had been sort of commoditized at that point.”

“We used to have this rule the eighty-twenty rule where it's like, you can't just build for that 20. I don't think we made this up by the way. I think this is a common thing, but we would always refer to it and say like, we want to be building for the 80%. And …”

“When I joined anchor and we weren't even fully podcasts yet, if you recall, we were sort of like something else audio, we were trying to avoid being podcasts for a while. And then we decided to just be podcasts”

“So I think at this point it's more than 75% of all new shows on Spotify are hosted with Spotify for podcasters, which used to be Anchor.”

“We just had college students making Apple podcast accounts and then submitting like hundreds of thousands of podcasts through these accounts.”

“And Daniel said to us, not, not only do I want you to not move slower, like that's part of why we're acquiring you so that you can like move quickly. But he said, I also want you to help me teach the rest of Spotify how to move more quickly.”

“And Spotify's definition of small was something like a quarter. And I was like, we've never built anything that took more than three months.”

“When we were acquired by Spotify, I think Anchor had already gotten to like 40% of all new podcasts or something crazy.”

“I don't think we had a data scientist until we were part of Spotify.”

“And when we look back at our data, that's the moment when we saw the beginning of that hockey stick growth, where it's like, we had been growing, we had been doing well. And then you zoom out and you're like, okay, that was very clearly the thing we were missi…”

“Anchor was like, 20 people when we got acquired by Spotify”

“Like we were shipping a new feature every two weeks. It was sort of insane.”