Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA couple teenagers launched a media company that now drives 240 billion annual views
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Kit Chilvers started posting memes on Instagram when he was 14, treating the platform like a video …
5 months ago
This company wants to fix the broken economics of standup comedy
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In some ways, it's never been a better time to be a standup comedian. In previous eras, aspiring st…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
How a few college students bootstrapped one of the largest sports media websites in the world
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In today's episode, we're speaking to Suryansh Tibarewala, the co-founder of Essentially Sports.
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5 months, 2 weeks ago
This social-first news outlet turned street interviews into a 600,000-subscriber YouTube channel
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Roca News was founded on a simple premise: so much of news now is consumed on social platforms, wit…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
How a 45-year-old magazine is building a B2B media empire
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When Shane Greer took over the magazine Campaigns & Elections in 2011, it was in a sorry state.
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5 months, 3 weeks ago
How the Kyiv Independent used global sympathy to generate membership revenue
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The Kyiv Independent launched in 2021, and its timing was in some ways fortuitous, since it was onl…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
How a local newsletter company is leveraging AI to cover hundreds of counties across the US
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What if you took Morning Brew's approach to newsletter writing and applied it to local news? That w…
7 months ago
Why BroBible's staff bought the website back from the media company that had acquired it
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When the media holding company Woven Digital purchased BroBible in 2012, the idea was that the guy-…
7 months ago
Why the founder of a popular cycling blog sold it and then left to launch a competitor
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In 2008, Wade Wallace found himself living in Australia and laid off from the company that moved hi…
7 months, 1 week ago
How a failed horror movie director co-founded one of the most popular yoga channels on YouTube
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There was a time 20 years ago where if you filmed a horror movie on a tight enough budget, you coul…
7 months, 1 week ago