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- ▶ 0:37 Garry Tan Before Lightspeed, Mike founded Anchor, a podcast platform that was acquired by Spotify in 2019.
- ▶ 1:29 Mike Mignano Company overall, my co-founder Nir Zuckerman and I, when we first started building Anchor, we were actually trying to make a social audio platform.
- ▶ 3:35 Mike Mignano We wanted to make it such that, you know, on, on your phone, you could tap a button, or you could hold the phone right up to your ear, talk, maybe do some light editing, and then people would just come into this app to listen and interact… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:50 Mike Mignano Increasingly, like, over, over many iterations, people were good to create content on Anchor, but when it came to listening, it was like, why would I listen to this, like, not great quality audio in this other random app when I have all… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:31 Mike Mignano I actually was telling your, your team before the show that, um, one of PG's essays was like a big, it was like a big, big inspiration to, ah, how Anchor actually survived, and, and not just survived, but like, ended up figuring it out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:06 Mike Mignano I mean, that's, that's what we did with Anchor.