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4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, plus special guests Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media and Will Mayo of Spoken Layer discuss the business of digital audio. This week’s podcast is sponsored by Automatic: a connected car adapter that pairs your car to your smartphone, empowering you to diagnose engine problems, drive more efficiently, remember where you parked, automatically notify emergency services in case of an accident, and more. Go to automatic.com/money to get 20% off. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sgn up today at: slate.com/moneyplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.7	when you go to automatic.com slash money. podcast. This is a meta- Podcast edition of Slate Money, which is ordinarily your guide to the
0:57.9	business and finance news of the week. And we are going to talk about one or two things
1:01.3	which happened this week. But really this is the whole episode devoted
1:06.4	to nothing but podcasts and the business and finance of the very thing you are listening to right now, and I'm finance of the very thing you are listening to right now.
1:13.4	And I'm super excited, along with Kathy O'Neill, who's here and my favorite person,
1:18.6	the blogger at mathbabe.org.
1:20.6	You're my favorite person too, Felix. Along with Kathy, we have the amazing Alex Bloomberg who has two podcasts and a company called
1:29.5	Gimlet Media.
1:30.5	Yes, very excited to be here.
1:32.1	Thanks for having me. And also we have
1:34.6	Will Mayo who is the CEO and founder of a company called Spoken Layer. It's great to be
1:39.8	here Felix. So before we find out even what Gimlet Media and Spoken Layer are, and before we talk about
1:46.9	how all of this business works and talk about big companies like Apple and Facebook, I'm going
1:52.2	to ask Alex a simple question, which is this,
1:56.2	which is, if this is the podcast, podcast,
1:59.8	what is a podcast?
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