Nathan Latka presents himself as a big podcast host and "best-selling author", but he allegedly makes his money by shaking down founders.
He has them come on his podcast, then refuses to post the episode until they share their metrics and promote him.
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2/ “I’m the most sued podcaster and I love it.”
–@NathanLatka
Here's Vox on how his scheme works:
"Entrepreneurs who’ve gone on Latka’s show, seeking publicity for their companies, allege that the pitch for coming on his podcast is misleading"...
vox.com/recode/2019/11…
3/ "Founders claim that one of the podcast’s main goals was to extract financial data from founders that Latka then packaged and sold to investors and other interested parties."...
4/ "He has also been known to hold back the publication of podcast episodes by more than a year unless a guest introduces him to three other entrepreneurs that he can pitch on the show, according to emails."...
5/ Here's what founders say:
“I advise any founder who gets approached about being on Nathan’s ‘podcast’ to ignore the email and report it as spam,” -@jordyleiser
6/ “I had no idea that they were going to sell data based on anything we discussed on the show. I wouldn’t have gone on if I knew what their intent was.” -@mkatz0630
Of course, whenever anyone says anything negative, they are immediately met with an aggressive smear from Latka.
7/ Here's what my friend @sol_orwell got in response to criticizing him for his practices. Note, Ahmed is not his real name, this is just racist BS:
8/ Here's his response to me when I publicized the fact that he spammed me today asking for numbers.
Note: we have never used his database, nor did we allow him to join our scout program after diligence. See below attachment.
9/ Generally, where there's smoke there's fire.
I have a feeling that if we kick this rock over, some interesting stuff will creep out.
Who has Nathan Latka stories? DM me, let's dig! 🕵️
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