Startup podcast alex blumberg
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They’re rich, and their only decent podcast self destructed. Because it had raised so much money, its every move echoed across the industry in Slacks and Gchats and group texts. The first episode was called “How to Pitch a Billionaire.” It documents Blumberg’s attempt to pitch what was then called the American Podcasting Corporation to the billionaire venture capitalist Chris Sacca.
There was Reply All’s messy implosion after the Bon Appetit fiasco,the canceled shows and quiet exits and layoff after layoff as morale deteriorated and remaining staff searched for new jobs. Meanwhile, Ira Glass is still turning out great INDEPENDENT radio. “In April of 2018, The Habitat launched,” he said. Gimlet raised $1.5 million in its seed round at the end of 2014 and started hiring producers.
As a media company don’t perpetuate “the facts of what society finds desirable” so carelessly. although I could be biased by loneliness, so there is that.
A decent podcast with a sinister underpinning. Despite the host clearly having little to no business acumen, and it being from 2014, I’m absolutely sold on following this journey and immediately subscribed.
First, just wanna say the show was pretty great. The Who’s who of the world. Here’s a pitch, staff brings in their soiled underwear. Rather than shouting at me how to follow a specific business model based on the host’s millions in successful revenue (aka the “look at the size of my...sales” humble brag fest), the host was engagingly humble, and is taking us along for the rise in a real fly-on-the-wall documentary style.
Alex just so you know- I’d pay for content this good. But Gimlet also succeeded in all the ways it was supposed to. But for years he was careful to keep his own story out of his comedy.
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