podcasting

“I think podcasting is interesting because it lets you basically have like 10,000 people who kind of learn what you're about. And they can either decide if they like you or not. And if they opt in and they like you, you've already pre you've pre like sold them …”

“People spend so much money on recording their stuff, and I actually don't think that's important, but when you have something like we have, which is like you kind of hit this lick, it's important to invest, and I think we've under invested, which is crazy.”

“Podcast is not designed to be addictive because you don't get these like viral spurts. It's slow and steady compounding with no immediate feedback.”

“I think that it has the benefit of what you said, that people become really loyal very quickly, but it's the hardest to grow.”

“And if every podcast was monetized like FM radio, it's probably that big. So it can probably like 20 X, 50 X, a hundred X. I don't know.”

“We found that sometimes if we're overly prepped, I'm barely listening to the other person. I just know where I'm going.”

“Training some, you know, AI on how we speak, just feeding it the transcript of our 500 episodes, and then having it write the ads for us in our own voice, and then actually synthesizing our voices. And reading the ads for us so we don't actually have to record…”

“The problem with podcasting is podcasting is like bottom of funnel. It's like where people, you know, form a deep relationship. It's not where they meet you.”

“I mean, you could argue that Apple lost the entire podcast business based on, like, based on their religion around taste.”