Daniel Ek – The Future of Audio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.147]
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Daniel Ek – The Future of Audio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.147]
Building and monetizing a niche business podcast while preserving creative freedom, scarcity, and avoiding growth-for-growth’s-sake incentives.
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I think there's a bit of a cold start.
If you were to propose going and creating an acquired for sports, you would, the sort of risk I guess we took, we didn't think about it as risk at the time because it was just a hobby, was you're looking at years of no or little monetization. Right. Because it's going to take a long time to build up the
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Discussing the diminishing returns of virality and the strategic pivot towards building long-term value with smaller, engaged audiences.
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And so we are certainly evaluating, like, what do we want from the work that we put out now? And what is the scale of the relationship with an audience that that work is going to have?
I actually believe that it will be very cool to spend the next three, five, maybe even 10 years engaging with much smaller audiences. It's going to take a lot of
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