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40 published records
“If we were authors and we wrote a book—and we get pitched all the time on writing a book—the business model for us does not make sense anymore, given the audience size that we have and the particular type of audience.”
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- Acquired
“I love seeing people like yourself, David Senra, Taylor Swift, Joe Rogan, or whoever, that are really deep on whatever they're passionate about.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I will say, unlike Spotify, which you can, by virtue of being a tech platform, aggregate a bunch of different audiences, and then let them choose their own adventure on a really broad platform, we create these serial episodes.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“One of the things we learned on the LVMH episode is that Rihanna became the first female recording artist billionaire because of Fenty Beauty.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think that's so interesting. I was talking to Ted Sarandos about this. He's on our board.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“The challenge to that, what I would say, is that the time in history where that was true was actually very, very short.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“Taylor Swift monetizes through everything you're talking about, the same way a mom and pop coffee shop does who just doesn't scale.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think about it in a way like this is not too dissimilar from mom and pop shops that are coming up in the US as a cultural norm.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think you sought advice from hundreds of people who all told you, don't do this, this category is toxic.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“The really cool thing is, you're able to take artists that otherwise, perhaps, may not even have been able to be professional, and now they have a global audience. I don't know how to express it other than that they have some God-given talent.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“We've had videos on Tiktok get a couple of million views, and we don't know if it translated to a single new subscriber to the pod.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think so. But also, she on her own, can basically control the zeitgeist. She can decide that this is a big cultural moment.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think there's a way where there's probably some overlap between the audiences, but also clearly attracts a new one.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“To give you some credit for our listeners, I think at the time, you probably had maybe 200 million people on the ad-supported tier who weren't in premium when you launched podcasting, maybe something like 150 million.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I'm not sure I'd go that far, but I would rather saturate our niche and then at some point, stop growing, than expand the niche, which I think we have 3X–4X headroom on our current.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think we had high-level concepts in our head for eight, but it turns out that most of the work is the last 10%.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I don't know if it was hundreds of millions, but certainly tens of millions of people literally waited.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I would say, the probably other thing that's been hugely important and that I wish more people talked about, is there are not many of us, but there are a few companies like Spotify, which, in a way, has been heavily influenced by Silicon Valley, but we are not Silicon Valley first.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think every really successful entrepreneur, in my opinion, has had at least three near death experiences with their company, where you just feel like, I'm not sure whether this thing is going to work, not work, whether we're going to be alive tomorrow or not.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I feel like so much has just ended up being, hey, do I have to pay in order to reach my audience now, that kind of switcheroo? But I think the more interesting one was, well, forget about if it's paid or not, but just increasing the costs of spam, but also increasing the quality of verification and being able to truly understand what's what in the end.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think we are. You know, better. We walk into the studio here in Stockholm, and we're like, this is just a skill beyond our imagination.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“We walked in the studio and we're like, we think we are highly technical podcast producers.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think we referenced early on in our conversation with Daniel, over 60% of Acquired's audience is now on Spotify, which is up from basically zero years ago.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think we're only in the beginning, obviously. That's hugely exciting for creators like yourself, but it's also scary because it's totally possible for us to make an entire episode where we're seeing totally different things than what we're seeing now.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I think we have the best interview lineup that we've ever had here on Acquired coming up.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“If you think about right now, obviously AI will come in and it will be massive. But I think at one point in time, Facebook (or now Meta) had over 100,000 content moderators actually working for them.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“The world just looked very different back at that time, and I think that changed.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“There was no in between like let's do windowing, let's do this and that, et cetera, because that was the only way.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I don't necessarily agree with everything he said, but I think his main takeaway is obviously that all media models ought to move to freemium.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“On the one hand, I think YouTube for creators is amazing because you can completely abstract the business.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“It is a much bigger commitment, for sure, but I may give it 10, 15, 20 minutes because I have that relationship.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“We always played around with the Descript replacement of certain words, but then we never shipped it to production because I was always like, it doesn't sound quite as good, and everything should be hand-mastered in Acquired.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“I don't believe so because we've seen time and time again, the quality rises to the top and actually becomes even more valuable in our world, photography being the key reference point.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“When people are talking about Spotify and criticizing it, that's the part is the biggest misconception because they hear so many, many people who are trying, and it doesn't work where they're not making a lot of money from it.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“That was probably the most contrarian both inside and outside. But to us, it was probably the most obvious one because we had already seen the behavior happening in Germany.”
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“We knew that because I'd seen enough of these, obviously, platforms. But it is important because if you think about it from a P&L, on the surface of this, these models are great because of very high gross margins, and so on and so forth.”
- Publisher
- Acquired
“Hundreds of millions of people who are actually listening to Audiobooks because the content is great rather than today with tens of millions of people.”
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- Acquired
“We have had to redefine what Acquired is basically once a year since we started.”
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“I believe that for us on why we care about this and certainly why we designed the home feed the way we did, is because fundamentally how we merchandise content has to be very different for music than it is for an audiobook or a podcast.”
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“What I believe at the time of Facebook's IPO, it was something like the cost for Facebook to onboard a user was a dollar a user or something like that in hardware cost and all that stuff, basically, to have lifetime value of a customer.”
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