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

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.

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

On average, people download 1 new app per year.

“We can’t rest on our laurels. We believe the market we’re going after is audio. That adds up to 2-3 billion people around the world who want to consume some sort of audio content on a daily or weekly basis. If we’re going to win that market, we’d have to be at least a third of it. We have somewhere between 10-15x of where we are now of opportunity... See more

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

“We know that discovery is one of the core benefits that we provide to people. If we can get you to discover one new item of content that you absolutely love every single month, we’re pretty sure you’ll remain a user or customer with us for a very long time.."

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

Ex.: How Facebook created its own Messenger app