Very Small makes cloud-based content management and automation tools for streaming music curators, podcasters, and broadcast radio.
Joined December 2018
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Very Small Industries retweeted
30 Apr 2019
This is often obscured in the talk about @Spotify. Look to @SIRIUSXM and their ~60% gross margin compared with Spotify’s ~25%. It’s tough to generate a healthy margin with just music given how concentrated the content is amongst a few labels, but podcasts are different.
29 Apr 2019
Spotify's acquisitions of Gimlet, Anchor, & Parcast are as much about margin expansion as they are product engagement.
With podcasts, Spotify can generate demand & capture the value of that demand creation (like Netflix). Can't do that with music given labels extract that value.
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Very Small Industries retweeted
29 Apr 2019
The old car companies think what separates them from Tesla is that Teslas are electric. But they're also separated by the fact that Teslas are software, and that, they will discover, is an unbridgeable gulf.
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Very Small Industries retweeted
22 Apr 2019
Teach people Retool / Airtable / Zapier / Figma / Clay on one end of a marketplace and create easy ways for companies to hire these people as freelancers and onboard them into existing systems for projects (could even be done through API) on the other end
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Very Small Industries retweeted
19 Apr 2019
We're seeing an explosion of enterprise software successes because markets are often 10X larger when they move from legacy to the cloud: global scale instantly, billions of potential users, exponential growth in devices, completely new work styles. This is just the start.
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Very Small Industries retweeted
13 Mar 2019
Any others want to chime in?? Original @Quora thread here -- thanks for hosting me for an AMA! quora.com/Which-commonly-dis…
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Very Small Industries retweeted
5 Mar 2019
“The greatest area of creativity right now is in podcasting,” @ZackRW tells #RAINsummit. The aim of Google Podcasts is double worldwide podcast listening and vastly improve search and discoverability.
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Very Small Industries retweeted
5 Mar 2019
At ##RAINsummit NPM CEO Gina Garrubbo asks @AmericanExpress VP Joe Bihlmier about value of #audio in the #media mix. “We love it. Terrestrial and digital. It’s the intimacy. Especially when we integrate into a specific #podcast.” @NPR
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Very Small Industries retweeted
14 Feb 2019
Here’s a scenario I’ve seen play out more times than I can count. Young band/act get some real buzz going around what they are doing. A fancy booking agent steps in and says “now’s your time! Let’s make this happen!” So the band stops booking themselves or leaves...
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9 Feb 2019
It would be cool for curators to have some sense of context within the zeitgeist when this sort of thing happens, no?
8 Feb 2019
Biggest mystery in Japan right now is how a 1994 song from Dinosaur Jr (Over Your Shoulder) topped the Billboard Overseas charts last week, beating out the likes of Ariana Grande and Queen. It also also topped the video charts with over 8 million views on YouTube.
8 Feb 2019
This is one of several reasons why we build in on-board, pre-processing EQ and audio normalization- relative to the other elements in your audio database.
Very Small Industries retweeted
7 Feb 2019
Netflix auto-playing previews for every single show is one of the most pronounced user-hating experiences online in a while. I get that it helps juice the audience count, but it turns browsing into a game of hot potato.
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Very Small Industries retweeted
2 Feb 2019
1/ Why is Spotify looking to buy Gimlet? Three reasons: (1) Differentiate through unique content, (2) Earn better margin with non-music content, (3) Capture the ad dollars moving off radio, DOUBLE the size of the music market in the US. I'll break this down below (thread 👇):
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FX Networks Chief John Landgraf says Netflix ratings data is
"not a remotely accurate representation." Netflix "is not telling you the whole story." "You" averages 8 million viewers an episode, not 40 million, says Landgraf. That's good number, but not 40 million, he adds.
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Very Small Industries retweeted
1 Feb 2019
There are very few decent sized podcast M&A comps. But here's one: In 2015 Scripps paid $50mm earnout for podcast distributor Midroll sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
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Very Small Industries retweeted
1 Feb 2019
UPDATE: Spotify will pay more than $200 million in cash for Gimlet. recode.net/2019/2/1/18207198…
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Very Small Industries retweeted
31 Jan 2019
I think I just figured out how to fit music discovery into @ProductHunt in a way that actually makes sense. Standby. 😉
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Very Small Industries retweeted
30 Jan 2019
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