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I really enjoyed the depth that Startup Podcast/Gimlet Media went with Dating Ring. In my opinion, there's a lot of great content you can cover in an hour but it's hard to cover new content given how many other podcasts there are.

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So was it tracking a company that made it interesting or the fact that there was more than an hour of conversations with them?

I think it was a combination of both. By giving them more time, they were able to revisit topics and giving new perspectives. Also, more time meant more time to get comfortable and share more intimate topics.

Not the op but: Gimlet is very good at creating well put together and edited stories. That seasons is very human and dives headlong into the painful (and beautiful) parts of slowly grinding and iterating toward failure. Failure from an investor perspective at least, it ends up being a non-scalable, labor intensive lifestyle business that loads of people would be proud to have built.

It was the opposite of the YC podcast: I'm a human that grew up, I went to college X, Applied to YC, Tried X, Y but Z is the one that worked. Company is great we raised money.

Yes, wwalser articulated this much better than me.

Yup. We definitely will cover more than YC companies and success stories.

Fwiw, I do like the success stories but prefer a longer interview (90 min+) because you get a real sense of the person vs the PR version of them/their company.

It would be great if you got graycat to spill the beans about his website.

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