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Channels with Peter Kafka

Food52’s surprising success story, with co-founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Food writers Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs turned a book deal into a digital publishing and retail company. Then they spent 10 years turning that company into something worth more than $100 million. They tell Recode Media’s Peter Kafka what they learned along the way — and why he was wrong to count them out years ago. Plus: A conversation with Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer about the state of the 2020 race, the media strategies the candidates are using, and what they did and didn’t learn from 2016. Featuring: Amanda Hesser (@amandahesser) and Merrill Stubbs (@merrillstubbs), Co-Founders of Food52 and Dan Pfieiffer (@danpfeiffer) author of Un-Trumping America, co-host of Pod Save America Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world flock to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.

1:13.6

And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.

1:18.6

This week on the Vergecast, we're talking all about everything happening at CES, from the TVs to the AI gadgets, to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might someday do your laundry

1:29.8

and wash your dishes.

1:30.9

All that and much more on the Vergecast wherever you get podcasts.

1:37.5

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

1:39.4

That is me speaking to you from Vox Media headquarters in New York City.

1:43.8

You get two podcasts for the

1:45.6

price of one here. It's free. You're welcome. First up, we're talking to Dan Pfeiffer. He's one of

1:51.6

the contributors at Pod Save America. He's been on this show before. He's a former comms guy

1:57.0

for the Obama White House. He's got a book to tell you about, but I wanted to talk to him

2:01.4

about the 2020 race and his insights into how those things are shaping up specifically the way

2:07.4

the candidates are using TV and the Internet and lessons they have and haven't learned from

2:11.9

2016. It is a good, short conversation. Next up, after Dan, Merrill Stubbs and Amanda Hesser, co-founders of a site called Food 52,

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