As of May 2017, podcasting now takes up more media consumption in my life than reading newspapers/online articles, watching TV or watching movies. With the proliferation of smartphones and cars that now allow downloading of podcasts some are calling this the golden age of audio. In 1938, as Laura Hillenbrand pointed out in her book […]
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STARTING A COMPANY VS. RUNNING A COMPANY Once his podcast company Gimlet Media was up and running CEO Alex Blumberg realized there was a difference between starting a company and running a company. It’s almost like finishing a marathon and the next day starting an ironman race. Much endurance and stamina is needed. Running a startup […]
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When Alex Blumberg was trying to raise money for his startup podcast company he eventually realized the importance of his pedigree—his professional background. Blumberg realized that his “unfair advantage” was spending 15 years in public radio working alongside radio producer extraordinaire Ira Glass producing quality radio programs. Simply put— knows how to put together quality […]
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Note: This is part two of a look at how radio producer/podcaster Alex Blumberg raised money to start Gimlet Media in 2014. Most of the material in these posts came from listening to the first season of Gimlet Media’s podcast StartUp. In the episode How Not to Pitch a Billionaire, venture capitalist Chris Sacca tells […]
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“I’m just one guy with a stupid little plan…I don’t know what the F**k I’m doing.” Alex Blumberg (recording himself at the early stages of starting his company) CEO, Gimlet Media For a guy who admits he didn’t know what he was doing just three years ago, what Alex Blumberg has pulled of is remarkable. […]
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Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it’s a bigger business today than it has ever been. People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do. Audio is the only medium you can […]
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From my perch in public radio, working at This American Life and Planet Money, I saw podcasting exploding around me. It went from a tiny niche activity, to a behavior embraced by tens of millions of Americans, and many more millions worldwide. And every year, more listeners adopted the habit. Essentially, on demand behavior — […]
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This post was originally written in 2014 as Finding Authentic Emotions: “Just because it’s a worthy cause doesn’t make it interesting.” Audio journalist Alex Blumberg Alex Blumberg is a rock star. At least a rock star in finding authentic emotions. Between Thursday and Sunday night I caught chunks of Blumberg’s live (and then rebroadcast) CreativeLive seminar […]
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Note: This post originally ran in 2014 as Finding Authentic Emotions (Part 1). On Monday I will do an update on Alex Blumberg and Gimlet Media which has been on a podcasting tear the last couple of years. “What is a story, exactly?” Alex Blumberg What were you doing at 4:16 this morning? I was […]
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The moment came at 64 minutes and 11 seconds into episode #300 of Scriptnotes when Chris McQuarrie explained the differences between screenwriting and film directing in just 18 words: “Screenwriting is pushing a rock up a hill, and directing is running downhill with a rock behind you.” Writer/ director Chris McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Mission Impossible-Rogue […]
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