Assertion certainty 4/5 debate potential 1/5

Rossi: Buzzsprout supports tens of thousands of podcasts

Tom Rossi · 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped · Aug 26, 2019 · at 3:32

Tom Rossi, co-founder of Buzzsprout parent company Higher Pixels, discusses the scale of their podcast hosting platform with Nathan Latka.

0:00 / 0:06exact quote · 6.4s
720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“Probably on the order of, I mean, it's definitely in the tens of thousands is the number of podcasts that we currently support.”

quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →

More from Tom Rossi

Insight
Rossi: Low ACV SaaS protects product autonomy from demanding enterprise clients
“And that's kind of the way that, that we want our products to be right. So that way you don't have that client that can just demand changes. We can really build it the way that we think it should be built and we're not beholden to, you know, some contract that…”
Tom Rossi Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 3:00 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rossi: Buzzsprout average revenue per user is $15 to $19 monthly
“Probably somewhere around 15 to 19 dollars is probably our average.”
Tom Rossi Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 2:47 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rossi: Buzzsprout has taken zero outside capital and been profitable since launch
“We didn't, we've never taken any money from anybody and we've been profitable since the day that we launched.”
Tom Rossi Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 4:30 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rossi: Buzzsprout is doubling revenue year-over-year
“Year over year, we're doubling.”
Tom Rossi Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 5:37 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped
Disclosure
Rossi: Buzzsprout pays $40 affiliate CAC, splitting $20 to each party
“I think it's 40 dollars that we pay because we give 20 dollars to the affiliate and we give 20 dollars to the person that was referred through the affiliate. So that way they have some incentive to give to, you know, Hey, if you sign up, you'll get 20 dollars …”
Tom Rossi Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 11:11 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped
Disclosure
Buzzsprout conservatively models customer lifetime value at $300 to $500
“Anywhere between three to 500 dollars. Okay. And so we keep it conservative. We'll typically say 300 dollars.”
Tom Rossi Aug 26, 2019 ▶ 13:33 1493 How Podast Hosting Company Buzzsprout Passed $15k in MRR, 1000 Customers, Bootstrapped
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 2,600 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.