Balancing Leadership and Innovation

In episode 606, Rob Walling chats with Craig Hewitt, the founder of Castos. They talk about company building, staying up to speed when you are no longer doing the day-to-day tasks as well as their thoughts on a recent string of acquisitions happening in the podcast ecosystem.

Topics we cover: 

[1:24] 2 MicroConf Local events happening in Chicago and Denver  

[3:50] The pros and cons of Spotify acquiring a couple of podcast analytics platforms 

[7:51] The specific challenges with podcast analytics 

[12:39] Spotify vs. Apple 

[16:31] Staying up to speed as CEO once you have a team doing the day-to-day tasks 

[28:32] Implementing OKRs at Castos 

[33:07] Castos’ Mission

Links from the Show:

• Craig Hewitt (@TheCraigHewitt) I Twitter
• Castos 
• MicroConf Local 
• Seeking Scale
• Rogue Startups
• Bootstrapped Web
• Tempo I Castos

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