The 10 Best StartUp Podcast Episodes
1) Exit
As acquisition talks with Spotify continue, Alex and Matt face their hopes and fears about what might lie ahead.
2) Our Company Has Problems
It's the spring of 2018, four years after Alex and Matt launched Gimlet, and things are not going well. Audiences are flat, ad sales are flagging, and the company is burning through cash at an alarmin...Show More
3) Gimlet 1: How Not to Pitch a Billionaire
This is a series about what happens when someone who knows nothing about business starts one. It's called StartUp. In episode one, Alex Blumberg botches his pitch to Silicon Valley billionaire C...Show More
4) Introducing StartUp: The Final Chapter
Five years ago, StartUp began chronicling the life of a fledgling Brooklyn-based podcasting company called Gimlet Media. This year, the streaming giant Spotify bought that company. In the final season...Show More
5) Arlan Hamilton 1: Silicon Valley, By Invite Only
Silicon Valley is leaving money on the table, and Arlan Hamilton will go to extremes to prove it. She's a venture capitalist like no other — black, female, gay — and she's out to prove that investors ...Show More
6) Alex Talks to a Podcasting Pioneer
Jeff Ullrich was a struggling business manager with a drinking problem and a waning sense of professional direction when, in 2010, he saw an opportunity: podcasting. It was a brand new medium, and no ...Show More
7) Success Academy 1: The Problem
The Story: Eva Moskowitz wants to fix a really big problem. There are over a million kids in New York City’s public schools. Most can’t read or do math at grade level. Many won’t graduate on time. And...Show More
8) Alex Talks to Award-Winning Chef Edouardo Jordan
When Edouardo Jordan’s Seattle restaurant JuneBaby won the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant last year, it was the first time that an African American chef had won that particular honor. Edoua...Show More
9) Arlan Hamilton 2: The Hustle
In this week’s episode we dive into what Silicon Valley considers “hustle” and how it may need to update its definition. We also find out how Arlan first got into venture capital—after months of sleep...Show More
10) Thanksgiving in Stockholm
Just days before Thanksgiving, Alex and Matt board a red-eye to Stockholm for a conversation that could change everything.