Alex Blumberg, Startup Podcast, Gimlet, Chris Sacca

Alex Blumberg, Gimlet, Funding

At one point I snuck the keywords “Alex Blumberg” & “Startup Podcast” into the title tags of my interviews. I wanted people to find my podcast when they searched for Alex’s. The guy had a top business show, so I was trying to appeal to his audience.

It worked, but it’s not my proudest move. My contact at Apple asked me to cut it out. But look, now I interviewed him. So I naturally mentioned his company, Gimlet, and managed to talk about investor, Chris Sacca, so I earned the keywords!

Plus, I sincerely love this interview so much that I hope you listen to this.

Alex Blumberg

Gimlet

Alex Blumberg is the founder of Gimlet, an award-winning podcast company which produces the podcast Startup.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.

And I remember the first time I heard the podcast that’s produced by today’s guest. My friend Kareem told me about it, and I said, “Now I’ve got to go listen to this thing.” Dozens of people told me about it before, but Kareem is the guy who told me about Eric Ries about half a decade before the “Lean Startup” book came out. I’ve got to go listen if he says it.

I remember listening to it, a podcast called Startup, and going, “Oh my god, these guys are actually going to build an empire in the podcast world.” This thing, podcasting, that I always thought was like a nichey, geeky thing I loved that was never going to go anywhere, that I never took seriously, even though I’d been doing it since 2008, they were actually building a company based on that. And they got Chris Sacca to invest, the Twitter guy, the software...

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