Episode 606 | The Podcasting Landscape, Keeping Your Saw Sharpened, and Scaling Your Team with Craig Hewitt

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In episode 606, Rob Walling chats with Craig Hewitt, the founder of Castos. They talk about company building, staying up to speed when you are no longer doing the day-to-day tasks as well as their thoughts on a recent string of acquisitions happening in the podcast ecosystem. Topics we cover: [1:24] 2 MicroConf Local events happening in Chicago and Denver [3:50] The pros and cons of Spotify acquiring a couple of podcast analytics platforms [7:51] The specific challenges with podcast analytics [12:39] Spotify vs. Apple [16:31] Staying up to speed as CEO once you have a team doing the day-to-day tasks [28:32] Implementing OKRs at Castos [33:07] Castos’ Mission Links from the Show: Craig Hewitt (@TheCraigHewitt) I Twitter Castos MicroConf Local Seeking Scale Rogue Startups Bootstrapped Web Tempo I Castos If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	Open source is amazing for the community and the developers and the end users, but it's also a really good business model, right?
0:06.2	Like WordPress and Automatic is an amazing business, and there's a lot of different examples of it in different industries where you have this open source tool that you can use however you want, and then there's the hosted version or the managed version.
0:17.1	It creates a lot of like community-based accountability, which I think is the most
0:22.2	positive thing.
0:41.3	Today we have another great episode of Startups for the rest of us. I'm your host, Rob Walling.
0:42.5	This is episode 606, where I sit down with the founder of Castos.
0:47.3	Craig Hewitt.
0:48.6	He and I talk through podcasting.
0:50.5	We talk about all the acquisitions that have been happening.
0:53.4	Podcast analytics, Apple versus Spotify. Then we switch it up and we talk about staying the acquisitions that have been happening, podcast analytics, Apple versus Spotify.
0:56.0	Then we switch it up and we talk about staying up to speed when you're no longer doing a task day-to-day as your company scales.
1:02.6	And we talk about keeping everyone on the same page as you grow because Castos is now 13 team members.
1:09.0	And obviously the challenges you face as a single founder
1:11.6	are very different than what you face when you're one of 13 people and you're just trying
1:16.8	to keep the ship heading in the right direction. Before we dive into that, our next round of
1:21.9	microcomf local events are scheduled for this summer. We have MicroConf Local in Chicago on June
1:26.6	21st and MicroConf Local in Denver on June 21st and MicroConf Local in Denver
1:29.3	on June 23rd. If you want to meet local bootstrappers in your hometown or want to make a short
1:34.0	trip to join us, head over to microconf.com slash locals to pick up your ticket. Remember that
1:39.4	the MicroConf locals are inexpensive and it's just a few hours in the afternoon so it's a great way to dip
1:44.8	your toe into the waters of microcomph. And currently I plan to be at both the Chicago and the Denver
1:51.1	event. So if you can make it, it'll be great to see you there. And with that, let's dive into my
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