Anchor, every mention

Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Head of Podcast Product) Sep 28, 2023 · 28 mentions

• ▶ 0:04 Maya Prohovnik And so we hired a couple of college interns and we brought them in and we were like, people are going to push, push this magical one button in the anchor app.
• ▶ 1:10 Lenny Rachitsky Maya was also employee number one at Anchor, which Spotify acquired about five years ago, 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 5:53 Maya Prohovnik 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. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 7:15 Maya Prohovnik So 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. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 18:59 Maya Prohovnik The other thing I would say is, uh, something that I have had to learn as a leader, especially at a, as part of a larger organization, you know, when we were a startup, Anchor was like, 20 people when we got acquired by Spotify, and by the…
• ▶ 20:58 Maya Prohovnik There were so many of these in the early days of Anchor because I don't even know, I don't think we had a data scientist until we were part of Spotify. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 26:25 Lenny Rachitsky I have other, a couple other questions that were anchor, but did you want to share it another time? 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 29:45 Lenny Rachitsky And this touches on a question that actually asked Mike Mignano, the CEO of Anchor, what to ask you. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 35:37 Lenny Rachitsky So we've been talking about anchor and I think what's really interesting about anchor is it's one of the very rare success stories of an acquisition working out incredibly well. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 42:33 Maya Prohovnik And he was like, just keep being anchor. 3 times in the scene