Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow a professional voice actor built a hit indie game studio
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Robbie Daymond is best known as a prolific voice actor, the kind of performer whose work spans anim…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
From MrBeast to microdramas: Scott Brown's bet on phone-native storytelling
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For most of his career, Scott Brown has operated at the crossroads of Hollywood and the creator eco…
4 months ago
Inside the YouTube strategy that turned Starter Story into a $2M+ media brand
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Pat Walls didn't originally set out to build a media company. In 2017, he was simply interviewing f…
4 months ago
The playbook behind one of the fastest-growing social-first newsrooms
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Founded during the pandemic, the The News Movement set out with a simple but radical premise: what …
4 months, 1 week ago
The accidental ad tech founder: Eric Hochberger's 20-Year bet on the open web
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In 2004, Eric Hochberger co-founded Mediavine, which would eventually become one of the most influe…
4 months, 1 week ago
From Hedge Fund Analyst to Independent Publisher: How Asian Century Stocks Built a Six-Figure Research Business
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Michael Fritzell doesn't fit the typical profile of a newsletter writer. Before launching Asian Cen…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
How a former hedge fund analyst built a six-figure newsletter covering Asia's overlooked stocks
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Michael Fritzell doesn't fit the typical profile of a newsletter writer. Before launching Asian Cen…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
He Shut Down Time's Moscow Bureau. Then He Built His Own Magazine
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In 2011, as the golden era of glossy newsweeklies was fading, former Time correspondent Nathan Thor…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
How a small journalism nonprofit is holding the largest pharma companies to account
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For decades, Diane Salvatore helped lead some of America's most recognizable magazine brands, inclu…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Should the media be afraid of Google Zero?
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For today's episode I spoke to Jim Louderback, the writer behind a newsletter called Inside the Cre…
5 months ago