a16z Podcast Market Overview

Spotify Podcast Leadership ((( Key Leadership: Barry McCarthy, CFO - Previously served as Netflix's CFO. At MS TMT conference in 2/2019, McCarthy talked about how Spotify could use the Netflix strategy of building "super good, predictive algorithms, like we developed at Netflix" to figure out what kind of shows to make next. "Over time, we have lots of exclusive content because we get super successful at predicting how much to spend and what to invest in because we're able to extract insights and data we've accumulated about our users' taste." Courtney Holt, Head of Studios and Video - Former EVP of media and strategy at Disney, head of Maker Studios, President of Myspace Music. Has compared Gimlet to Pixar and Marvel -- which were purchased by Disney -- and operated as discrete and successful studios Alex Blumberg, cofounder and CEO, Gimlet - From 1999-2014 he was the producer for the public radio show This American Life and cofounder of Planet Money. From 2007-2009 he was the executive producer of the television version of This American Life. Gimlet makes shows including StartUp, Mystery Show, Surprisingly Awesome, and Reply All. Michael Mignano, cofounder and CEO, Anchor - Previously led Product for Aviary, growing the photo editing platform's audience to over 100M creators before being acquired by Adobe in 2014. He previously led Digital Product Development for Atlantic Records. "The wider otify organization wanted to give Anchor superpowers. What that meant was really around giving us the support and the infrastructure to be able to make better tools, to be able to offer better data, and, in general, make podcasting better." Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/5/18243729/spotify-podcast-strategy-gimlet-media-anchor-purchase © 2019 - Andreessen Horowitz 19

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