In the 38th episode Founder of Anchor Mike Mignano joins to talk about how he and Logan met, the origins of Anchor, selling to Spotify, what he sees as the future of podcasting, and Web3’s role in the creator economy. Plus Logan talks about his most recent Twitter backlash over being reasonably skeptical.

(0:00) Intro

(1:02) Tennessee vs Alabama

(5:58) Ghostwriter backlash

(10:15) Introducing Mike Mignano

(11:57) How Mike and Logan met

(14:09) Mike’s programming background

(17:37) Advice for kids

(21:37) Left Accenture for a startup

(27:42) Beginning of Anchor

(39:44) Selling to Spotify

(46:03) RSS as an open protocol

(53:11) The future of podcasting

(59:42) Clubhouse

(1:04:15) Apps capturing a moment

(1:06:41) Recommendation media

(1:19:39) Web3 creator economy and monetization

(1:28:36) Wrap up

Show Notes:

Dead Cat Podcast - VC Ghostwriters (w/ Logan Bartlett)

Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky

Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir

Executive Producer: Josh Machiz

Music: Griff Lawson

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A Saturday morning podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett (Partner and Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures) covering the tech news with his friends and other people with industry expertise.

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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