Frasier: Hosting The Fat Startup Podcast Enabled Booking High-Profile Tech Speakers
Anthony Frasier · How Do You Build Wakanda in Someone's Ears · Nov 25, 2021 · at 12:34
Anthony Frasier (CEO of ABF Creative) discusses how hosting a podcast served as executive networking leverage to recruit top-tier tech leaders to speak at his company's conference.
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“We had a podcast called the fat startup that we did years ago, and then we built a conference. We were able to get high profile guests at the conference simply because we had a podcast. We were able to talk and convince Gary Vaynerchuk, James Altucher, Ben Horowitz, Tristan Walker, Ryan Leslie.”
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