Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

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…You're looking at the whole organization. Okay, not a lot of content. A common wisdom is to release content every week. We don't do that. That has downsides, such as it's hard to become a top show in the charts. If you're not constantly producing new content, it works against the algorithms. But it has upsides of, now we can go do really, really deep research. A second one being really long episodes, that's a massive trade-off. Lots of people don't want to listen to you when you do that, but the people who do really like it. Another one being, people often ask, do another show, bring another host. You could leverage the podcast feed to promote other episodes of your new spin-off show with your new host, where you have some of the economics of that. There's a lack of purity to me that that's not Acquired, then. I don't know why we would do that. It doesn't fit in the box.…

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