S3 E1: Cole Raven, Podchaser

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Cole Raven has spent many years in Indiana. Immediately out of college, he started a business that failed quickly - but early on, he knew he wanted to do his own thing. His wife and he just moved to Hawaii... they have been a full time travelling couple, following the Spartan Race for quite some time - so obviously they are into trail running! Prior to his latest venture, he signed on to Vibenomics as one of their first employees, early on in their startup inception. He learned a lot about startups - about fundraising, and what it takes to build a successful startup. A few years ago, he and his team figured out that podcast episode discovery is downright terrible. There is no IMDB for podcasts. After some community polling and volunteer participation from a team in Australia, they set out to build Podchaser - which is your source for podcast discovery. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	We built it to scale in a way where, yeah, if we got a lot of traffic, we could handle it.
0:07.9	But if a lot of people were using all of the different features, you know, it would expose a lot of bugs.
0:16.8	Our initial thought process was if we can get podcast creators to share Podchaser, then it's going to bring their listeners.
0:24.0	Because if they say, go rate and review my show on Podchaser, then listeners are going to discover it.
0:28.0	Then they're going to discover all the features.
0:29.7	So we from the beginning built tools to support podcast creators.
0:37.0	My name is Cole Raven.
0:38.7	I am a co-founder and head of revenue at Podchaser.
0:47.5	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what
0:55.6	it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.2	I'm your host, Noah Labhart, and today help Cole Raven set out with his co-founders to build
1:09.1	the IMDB for podcasts.
1:13.5	All this and more on Coat Story.
1:21.6	Cole Raven has spent many years in Indiana.
1:25.2	Immediately out of college, he started a business that failed quickly,
1:28.8	but early on he knew he wanted to do his own thing. His wife and he just moved to Hawaii.
1:35.3	They've been a full-time traveling couple following the Spartan race for quite some time. So obviously,
1:40.5	they're into trail running. Prior to his latest venture, he signed on to Vibeonomics as one of their first employees
1:47.1	early on in their startup inception.
1:49.6	He learned a lot about startups, about fundraising, and what it takes to build a successful
1:54.3	startup.
1:55.6	A few years ago, he and his team figured out that podcast episode discovery is downright terrible.
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