Episodes

  • Introducing StartUp

    Introducing StartUp
    Feb 14 2020
    A series about what it's really like to start a business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 min
  • Exit

    Exit
    Oct 18 2019
    As acquisition talks with Spotify continue, Alex and Matt face their hopes and fears about what might lie ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    37 mins
  • Thanksgiving in Stockholm

    Thanksgiving in Stockholm
    Oct 11 2019
    Just days before Thanksgiving, Alex and Matt board a red-eye to Stockholm for a conversation that could change everything. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • Our Company Has Problems

    Our Company Has Problems
    Oct 4 2019
    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 alarming rate. And with all of those pressures, Alex and Matt have started to fight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    30 mins
  • Introducing StartUp: The Final Chapter

    Introducing StartUp: The Final Chapter
    Sep 27 2019
    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 of StartUp, what it's really like to sell a business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    2 mins
  • Gimlet 24: Ask Alex

    Gimlet 24: Ask Alex
    Jun 30 2017
    You called with your questions. Alex Blumberg has your answers—about growth, diversity at Gimlet and, oh yeah, that ABC sitcom that’s currently being made about the first season of StartUp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    31 mins
  • Gimlet 23: Shadowed Qualities

    Gimlet 23: Shadowed Qualities
    Oct 21 2016
    This week, Alex receives feedback about his job performance from his co-workers, friends, and family. Some of it is good, some less so. But there is something else that comes up during the review process that shocks him. We explore what happens when you unpack your emotional baggage—or someone unpacks it for you—and you realize the unexpected effect that it has been having on your team. In this final Gimlet-focused episode of season four, we take a raw and intimate look at a defining moment in the trajectory of a CEO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • Gimlet 22: You Can't Wear a Suit Here

    Gimlet 22: You Can't Wear a Suit Here
    Oct 14 2016
    Growth. It can be exciting, it can be motivating, and it can be really stressful. In this week’s episode, we take a look at the tensions that Gimlet’s growth spurt is creating. We speak with the team producing one of our upcoming shows to see what it’s really like to build a podcast from the ground up. Each of them is being asked to step up to the plate in a way that they never have before, and some are realizing that the support they expected, it just isn’t there. People are pushed to their limits, emotions run high, and things that have remained hitherto unsaid are finally aired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    31 mins