Alex Blumberg has a new podcast – StartUp:
I’m Alex Blumberg. My experience is in public radio, as a producer for This American Life and as a co-founder of the business-economics series Planet Money. After years of reporting on other people’s businesses, I decided to start my own.
This show follows what happens next – my difficult journey from man to businessman. It’s a classic start-up story, but one that’s recorded in real time. I’ve documented disastrous pitches to investors, difficult conversations with my wife, and tense negotiations with my co-founder. The result is an honest, transparent account of something that happens all the time, but that we can rarely listen in on: starting a business.
I found all four of the episodes posted so far really enjoyable. Part of that comes from having listened to Alex Blumberg before and the good production quality.
The other part is the feeling that you are along for the ride, sitting in the back seat of a car while two people are talking about this experience.
2 replies on “StartUp Podcast”
Nicely put. I completely agree.
The serialized cliff-hanging what-happens-next feeling is something I haven’t experienced in audio in a long time.
He definitely knows how to tell a story. I could sit and listen to these one right after another ( like burning through a whole season of a tv show on Netflix in one night ).