One of the things that I've been thinking a lot about is sort of like what I think the power of audio is, which is I think it's an inherently more empathetic medium than TV.

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check out tropical MBA.com. So who is this week's mystery guest.

I've gotten guesses all over.

All over.

You name the social media channel.

I think I even got an astronaut.

Somebody asked me, is that Buzz Aldrin?

Said, no.

So who is it? I think we should just play the clip to reveal it.

Yeah, my name's Alex Bloomberg, and I'm the CEO of Gimlet Media.

Gimlet Media is this company that's just a leader in the podcast space.

Alex Bloomberg, many of us as Americans, have grown up with this guy's work in our ears, you know, through

this American life and Planet Money. And now their show's startup has like galvanized the

podcasting world and the entrepreneurial community. Everyone's talking about it, including

ourselves. In fact, last year, we created an episode essentially critiquing what Gimlet was all about. And we never thought to invite Alex onto the show at all. And I think after speaking to him this week, you know, I think our critique would have been a lot different had we spoken to him. For sure. So Gimlet's first podcast was called Startup and it absolutely blew up. And if you haven't listened to it you absolutely must so startup was really all about the story of Alex's decision to leave the world of

public radio to go out and to raise money to build a company that's aim was to produce high

quality narrative driven podcast and Alex's thesis was that this could be a

viable model. And he's proven it that if you put time, energy, and world-class expertise into

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