Thread by @sajithpai

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On my fave startup + tech podcasts:)

1/18

Barton Biggs, research guru turned hedge fund manager famously classified people into visiles & audiles (ref ‘Hedgehogging’).

Visiles absorb info via eyes (reading)
Audiles via ears (talking / listening)

(Youtube wasnt too popular then for it clearly breaks his split!)

2/18

Now I am a visile & I have struggled w podcasts:)

Podcasts are great content of course, & lots there you don't get easily in writing. But I have wondered as to why I should take out 40-50mins to listen to a podcast when in that time, I can instead breeze through 3-4 posts?

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Thankfully more & more podcasts are coming w transcripts.

This is terrific, for podcasts help generate content that wouldn’t have easily emerged. Here is why.

4/18

The single best podcast - in quality of audio content + transcript - IMHO is @joincolossus - the new avatar of @patrick_oshag ’s Invest Like The Best. Well-curated top drawer guests & a practiced + smart host; + well-organized searchable transcripts. 5/

joincolossus.com

Other high quality podcasts w transcripts (in alphabetical order) include @acquiredfm where hosts @gilbert & @djrosent go behind the scenes of a business transition, or an M&A. Transcripts for most episode available; expect delays for newer episodes. 6/18

acquired.fm

VC @ngpedro & AppAnnie founder @bschmitt discuss interesting topics and trends across tech. Check out their 3-part SaaS Primer. 7/18

decipheredshow.com

Linkedin founder + @GreylockVC @reidhoffman interviews founders and thinkers on Masters of Scale. 8/18

mastersofscale.com

2 Desi podcasts now!

PrimeTime from @Primevp_in - primevp.in/content/podcas…

Matrix Moments from @matrixindiavc - matrixpartners.in/blog?qs=The%20…

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @rbalaraman @salonieganju @TheSwamy @amitsomani 9/18

Mike Maples @m2jr of @FloodgateFund interviews founders, thinkers & VCs. The one where he interviews Andy Rachleff discussing PMF is pure gold. 10/18

greatness.floodgate.com/episodes

exVC turned journo @ruima interviews Chinese startup founders and some VCs on @techbuzzchina. Good look at Chinese companies including Bytedance (she is writing a book on Bytedance). 11/18

techbuzzchina.com

Nick Moran’s @TheFullRatchet

One of the OGs of venture + startup podcasting. In its 7th yr. Transcripts for the more recent episodes only, sadly. 12/18

fullratchet.net

The Next Billion.

GGVC's @hanstung & Robin Li interview many great founders, incl many Chinese founders here ofc (and this podcast is another great China resource). We are on Season 2. Season 1 was called '996' (links to them in the same piece). 13/18

nextbn.ggvc.com

The last is an Indian one, @100xEntr by @siddharthaa7 who curates an interesting set of investors + founders to interpret the Indian startup ecosystem. 14/18

100xentrepreneur.com

I am ofc leaving out some familiar ones such as
@twentyminutevc by @HarryStebbings
Venture Stories by @eriktorenberg
as they dont have transcripts.

(20VC has transcripts for more popular guests though, i noticed recently.) 15/18

The content in these podcasts👆🏽is high quality content, in text (with high scan rate). If you are a visile then you are in luck:)

I have been slowly moving my information diet from substack towards podcast transcripts. 16/18

A dream product (one I have fantasised putting hobby money in) is to create a custom zine where folks can request different combos of transcripts (toting to say ~100pgs), which can be @Printo_India ’d + @DunzoIt ‘d to the buyers, every month, for lean back, leisurely reading. 17/

Some more podcasts + notes here - notion.so/sajithpai/Reco…

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