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Episode 606 | The Podcasting Landscape, Keeping Your Saw Sharpened, and Scaling Your Team with Craig Hewitt

Startups For the Rest of Us

English - June 07, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 675 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 605 | Building a SaaS with Little Dev Experience, Using No Code for Your MVP, Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace, and More Listener Questions
Next Episode: Episode 607 | Overcoming Plateaus, Stealth Launches, Founder-Driven Sales, and More Listener Questions

In episode 606, Rob Walling chats with Craig Hewitt, the founder of Castos. They talk about company building, staying up to speed when you are no longer doing the day-to-day tasks as well as their thoughts on a recent string of acquisitions happening in the podcast ecosystem.

Topics we cover: 

[1:24] 2 MicroConf Local events happening in Chicago and Denver  

[3:50] The pros and cons of Spotify acquiring a couple of podcast analytics platforms 

[7:51] The specific challenges with podcast analytics 

[12:39] Spotify vs. Apple 

[16:31] Staying up to speed as CEO once you have a team doing the day-to-day tasks 

[28:32] Implementing OKRs at Castos 

[33:07] Castos’ Mission

Links from the Show:

Craig Hewitt (@TheCraigHewitt) I Twitter

Castos 

MicroConf Local 

Seeking Scale

Rogue Startups

Bootstrapped Web

Tempo I Castos

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