The History of Podcasting

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The entire podcasting industry in terms of revenue around this time was like $30 million with an M. At some point, pretty soon acquired will eclipse that in just our revenue. They paid us $5,000 to sponsor our first season. That's when we introduced season. There were no seasons before that. And then it had been running for either six months or a year. I think Ben had the idea like, Oh, we should survey our audience and get a ton of feedback about the show. But now that we have a sponsorship, we should be like, I'm just curious how did it perform.

David Rosenthal is a podcaster and host of Acquired – a podcast that details the stories of the world's most successful companies. 0:00 Intro 1:24 Ed Zschau’s High Impact Entrepreneurship 7:20 Tim Ferriss Guest Lecturer 9:50 David’s Senior Thesis 12:41 The Skill Of Recall 16:00 What Has David Learned From Parents? 20:00 VC & Hollywood 28:01 First Sponsor Of Acquired 37:58 4 Segments Of Audience 42:08 Taylor Swift 43:52 Does David Feel Guilty For Privilege? 46:00 Why David Was Not A Good Student 51:00 Perception Of Content 53:13 The Bar Rising 55:41 Name Change (“Acquired” To “Adapting”) 59:03 Parenting & Relationships 1:21:12 Why Is David So Smiley? 1:27:31 Mediums 1:34:02 Rising Tides Of Podcasting 1:37:00 Business Celebrities 1:39:55 Water Sees Its Own Level 1:47:53 Challenge David’s Podcast Acquired: https://www.acquired.fm Twitter: https://twitter.com/djrosent My Links 🎙 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/dannymiranda 🎥 YouTube: https://youtube.com/dannymiranda 🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/heydannymiranda 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/heydannymiranda 🕺 TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@heydannymiranda