podcasts
also referred to as: podcast · the podcast
12 statements across 12 episodes · 4 bullish · 4 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2021 by Sam Parr · across every show →
Everything said about podcasts, oldest first
Jul 21, 2021 positive
Aug 25, 2021 negative
Shapiro: Wealthy creators who run podcast ads undermine their content's purpose
“When I see very rich people start podcasts and still run ads on their podcast, like, unless you're doing it to pay employees, awesome, but if you're doing it because you're trying to make an extra buck, it seems like it's totally defeats the purpose of why you…”
Jan 4, 2022 neutral
Puri: Paid ads and growth hacks do not work for growing podcasts
“There's no like easy growth hacks to growing a podcast. There's no just like button. You can push paid ads. Don't really work. Nothing really works like that. The good news is once somebody actually subscribed to your podcast, they become like a really loyal f…”
Jul 19, 2022 neutral
Ben Wilson: YouTube videos must be gripping second-by-second
“Cause podcasts like you listen to as you're washing the dishes, like it doesn't matter that it's not gripping every second of the audio, but for YouTube, like it does need to be gripping every second, like really needs to pull people second by second.”
Sep 8, 2022 negative
Consumers will never love software or podcasts as much as sports
“Business is cool, but like, God, sports and music just have this special thing, this special moment, these special feelings that you can't, there's nobody is that passionate about our podcast. Nobody is that passionate about this piece of software.”
Oct 12, 2022
Dec 29, 2022 positive
Puri: My First Million hit 20M downloads in 2022
“Twenty million downloads this year for the podcast, which is I think six times bigger than last year by maybe four or five, five times. I might have my math wrong there, but I think YouTube's up six X and the pod is up four X or something like that.”
Nov 29, 2023 neutral
Pompliano: Top content creators post spontaneously rather than using structured marketing calendars
“Whether it's Twitter, whether it's podcasts, whatever, the people who tend to be good at it, don't think of it and like sit down and like create a marketing calendar. Like, I dunno, they're like taking a poop and they pull out their phone and they start tweeti…”
Apr 12, 2024 positive
Puri: Podcasts and notes should maximize the 'rate of revelation'
“I'm not taking notes on what happened. I'm only taking notes on what are the new epiphanies? What are the new golden nuggets? What's the one phrase somebody said that I'm going to remember? And I'm looking for a high rate of revelation. I think that's also, by…”
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Nov 12, 2025 negative
Nov 26, 2025 negative
Listening to an author's podcast delivers 80% of their book's value
“So, I haven't, this is, I haven't read a book in, like, 15 years, and I think it's very, very contrarian opinion, but I think, like, I have so many friends that are authors that I talk to that are just, like, trying to get the words out, but if you, like, list…”