This has to do with the idea of breaking up a larger app/platform into multiple apps/platforms, instead of building more features into the main app

Luminary raised hundreds of millions to become to the “Netflix of podcasts” But… it’s not really working

“I think the last job to be done by a machine is creativity”

“The reality is we’ve seen very few examples where this has worked. The exception is with the large platforms – Apple, Google, and to an extent, Facebook.”

Think: Podcasts are based on RSS feed technology (which was pre-Facebook, YouTube, and a whole bunch of other things we take for granted)

Ex.: How Facebook created its own Messenger app

“Getting distribution on something new is insanely hard in this day in age”

With a film, you know it’s not reality (no matter how real it feels). With a podcast, or something similar, it feels so real, that it’s as if you’re in the room with the conversation participants.

“Every single successful media platform has been built off the back of existing content, even though they’re most known for their own things today”