🎧 Episode 1 — Spotify, Audio, and Business Model Leverage

This week, I dive deep on Spotify, the exploding audio market, and a concept called Business Model Leverage. 

If you have any feedback on content or format, or have any ideas for topics I should touch on in the future, you can find me on Twitter @brettbivens and to stay up to date, you can sign up to the Venture Desktop newsletter at here. 

You can find all of the links from the episode below. 

• Maffei — "When you sum it, we believe the ear is under-monetized versus the eye."
  
  


• "Audio...Liberty still loves you" (Sirius XM / Liberty Media Investor Day)
  
  


• Greg Maffei on CNBC
  
  


• Pandora — "We want a bigger Share of Ear in the expanding Audio Day"
  
  


• Gavin Baker — Monetization follow attention and engagement.
  
  


• Nicola Korzenko (Podfund)
  
  


• The Podcast Monetization Gap
  
  


• Spotify Q3 2019
  
  


• Business Model Leverage
  
  


• BAML Research on Podcasts
  
  


• Blending genres of audio...
  
  

Deep Cuts

1. Retweetables — Semil on Followability
   
   


2. Rereadables — Bill Gurley on the 10x Revenue Club
   
   


3. Relistenables — A16Z, A Podcast About Podcasting
   
   

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit venturedesktop.substack.com