The Vanishing Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Leigh Gallagher, author of the book, The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy, discuss:Snap Inc’s 22 billion dollar IPO evaluation.Airbnb’s epic rise and future challenges.The benefits of the The New York Times’ paywall approach.Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.
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Twitter: @felixsalmon, @JHWeissmann, @leighgallagher
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.4 | Hello, and welcome to the vanishing edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:19.9 | You should listen to this edition now because who knows whether you're going to be able to listen to it tomorrow. |
| 0:25.8 | It might disappear into a puff of digital ether. |
| 0:30.1 | I am Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm joined by Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissman. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello. |
| 0:36.9 | And I am very excited to tell you all about our special guest, Lee Gallagher. |
| 0:43.4 | Hi, Felix. |
| 0:44.2 | Hi, Lee and I know each other because we appear on Marketplace together every now and then. |
| 0:50.4 | You work for Fortune. |
| 0:51.7 | You have some grand title there. |
| 0:53.1 | I do. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm an assistant managing editor there and |
| 0:55.6 | more to the point you are a published author of various books including a new one which is called |
| 1:02.5 | it's called the arbb story oh okay so i have an idea let's talk about a bnb let's what we're going |
| 1:09.2 | do is we are going to talk this week about, |
| 1:14.4 | well, let me give you three numbers. These are digital revenue numbers. We're going to talk |
| 1:19.7 | about a company with $400 million of digital revenue last year. And then we're going to talk about a company which |
| 1:30.1 | had $1.7 billion of digital revenue last year. And then we're going to talk about a company |
| 1:36.9 | which had $500 million of digital revenue last year. So that's the, that's the, that's the, |
| 1:42.8 | through line. That's the through line. That's the through line. |
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