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Alex Blumberg

Co-founder & CEO, DaisyChain Energy · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alex Blumberg is an audio journalist who co-founded Gimlet Media and created or co-hosted hit podcasts including Planet Money, StartUp, and How to Save a Planet. Following Gimlet's acquisition by Spotify, he transitioned into climate technology to launch DaisyChain Energy.

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Everything Alex Blumberg said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Blumberg: Gimlet spends at least $100k developing each new show
“We're spending at least a hundred grand before we even, before we're out the door with one single podcast.”
Alex Blumberg Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 8:15 King of Podcasts Tells Us How He Launched 5, Made Millions, with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
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Blumberg: All podcast shows launched by Gimlet Media are profitable
“The way we're operating right now, like on a per show basis, all the shows that we've launched are profitable.”
Alex Blumberg Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 2:46 King of Podcasts Tells Us How He Launched 5, Made Millions, with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
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Blumberg: Podcasting will head toward premium television production values
“Our bet is that, you know, as this medium matures, that it's going to be heading in the direction of sort of premium television, that like, there's going to be, you know, higher and higher production values, more and more sort of like creative energy into crea…”
Alex Blumberg Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 6:37 King of Podcasts Tells Us How He Launched 5, Made Millions, with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
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Reply All generates over $1M annually at 500k downloads per episode
“What a show like reply all if it's got 36 shows a year at the audiences that it's doing, which are about, you know, which are like somewhere close to half a million downloads per episode. You know, it's bringing in over a million dollars a year.”
Alex Blumberg Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 17:26 King of Podcasts Tells Us How He Launched 5, Made Millions, with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
Disclosure
Blumberg: Gimlet commands premium ad rates by producing ads in-house
“We are able to command a premium on those spots because we produce them ourselves. And we have a unit inside Gimlet that produces the ads.”
Alex Blumberg Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 4:29 King of Podcasts Tells Us How He Launched 5, Made Millions, with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
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Blumberg: Gimlet ad CPMs are well above industry average of $20–$30
“I think the average for the industry is somewhere between 20 and 30 dollar CPMs per spot and we're getting well above that.”
Alex Blumberg Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 5:13 King of Podcasts Tells Us How He Launched 5, Made Millions, with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
Disclosure
Blumberg: Gimlet takes six months to develop a show from concept
“It's a six month process taking a show from concept to final execution.”
Alex Blumberg Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 7:17 King of Podcasts Tells Us How He Launched 5, Made Millions, with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
Disclosure
Blumberg: Reply All produces 36 episodes yearly with six dedicated staff
“They release 36 shows a year. And there's a staff of six, you know, working full-time you know, five, five full-time people and an intern.”
Alex Blumberg Feb 1, 2016 ▶ 11:19 King of Podcasts Tells Us How He Launched 5, Made Millions, with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media

The other half of the tape: Alex Blumberg's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 14 times in 7 episodes on Top Founders. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 8Joe Saul-Sehy 4Margaret Brown 2

Statements about Alex Blumberg, by other people (1)

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Latka: Gimlet Media spends six figures per show before releasing samples
“No, like, each show, he'll put, he broke down the team structure for me. He'll put, like, I think six or eight people Per show. And before there's even anything out live, they're investing over six figures before they even put a sample out.”
Nathan Latka Jan 21, 2017 ▶ 20:29 EP 546: The Pitch Made $80k in Year 1 Sponsor Revenue, 700,000 Downloads with Producer Josh Muccio

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
King of Podcasts Tells Us How He Launched 5, Made Millions, with Alex Blumberg of Gimlet M Feb 1, 2016 12m
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