Gimlet Media

“You need, like, what's, it needs to be about something, but it can't be, the concept can't be too binding, otherwise you're not going to be able to find enough stories to sort of keep it going.”

“Up until like a couple, up until about a month ago, we didn't have one Technology person on the team.”

“We don't do any kind of analytical process around it, and partly because it's not like, it's like we don't, right now the, sort of like the main, the capital that we need to start a show is Is, is human capital, right?”

“So we just try to figure out like, okay, what are we doing? And right now we've, we, and we try to do all of them. Like the big ones can sort of bring storytelling, bring that companionship and bring something that you learn.”

“It's better to find something that the host is passionate about rather than try to sort of match the host with some sort of material that you think could work.”

“No, I mean, I think if you're, if you've gotten over, if you've gotten up to a 100,000 independently. You're doing really well.”

“It seems less likely that if we were ever going to build like our own platform, that seems less and less likely. Like just because, you know, the Spotify's and the tune-ins and the Apple's are definitely like for a while, like they weren't really paying attent…”

“And empathy is like a big, big part of what we believe is important. Like you have to be motivated by a desire to understand you know, as much as a desire as any other desire, like sometimes like a lot of people get into sort of like this line of work for a va…”