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Alex Blumberg

Podcaster

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Alex Blumberg is a podcaster.

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Profession: Podcaster

About Alex Blumberg

[Wikidata] American radio journalist... | [Wikipedia] Alex Blumberg is an American entrepreneur, radio journalist, former producer for public radio and television, best known for his work with This American Life, Planet Money, and How to Save a Planet. He was the co-founder and CEO of the podcast network Gimlet Media.

Quotes by Alex Blumberg

There are tons of businesses that exist in the United States. An insane number of people who are in business for themselves.…

Boards

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What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an…

Answers

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Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a…

Bigger

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When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it.

Business

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A lot of people listen to podcasts because they want to learn something and be entertained along the way.

People

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With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.

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Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.

Audio

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People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.

Can do

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When you're hearing somebody and you're not seeing them, your brain naturally creates a version of them. Then you feel closer to…

Brain

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I was 40-something years old. I hadn't shown any entrepreneurial spunk up until that point.

Entrepreneurial

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One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy.

Audio

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A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and…

Anthropology

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