@nbnfm_ | @a16zcrypto CSX23 alum
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Feb 11
vibe coded The Epstein Files podcast with Claude in a weekend and just crossed 100,000 downloads in its first week.
to put that in perspective:
the top 1% of all podcasts globally get around 5,000 downloads in their first 7 days. this did 100k. that's 20x the top 1% threshold.
the average podcast gets 141 downloads in its first 30 days. most spend 18 months trying to crack 1,000 per episode. a lot never get there and there are 4.5 million podcasts out there right now.
no fancy studio. no production team. just Claude, a mac mini, and a weekend of focused work curating the right approach to this series.
still processing this one honestly.
Feb 4
gave claude the epstein files to create a 64 ep podcast.
millions of data points, names, themes, and timelines connected.
listen on apple/spotify no ads. sources: epsteinfiles.fm
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May 23
a War Desk listener who subscribes to NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, and The Atlantic just told us we’re the only one giving him the facts behind the conclusions
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The Epstein Files: Are AI Podcasts the Future? @levychain x.com/i/broadcasts/1vJpPreEb…
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2.8 million downloads. #1 podcast in the UK. Fully AI-generated
@levychain used Claude to untangle the Epstein files. Now he’s proving it’s a repeatable business model
Livestream with @mattmedved Tuesday at 2pm ET 🎙️
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May 3
There is a podcast that did more than 2.8 million downloads, hit no.1 in the UK on Apple, and... is entirely AI-generated
Enjoyed chatting with @levychain about how he built "The Epstein Files" pod and what it means for the future of content 🔊⬇️
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Apr 14
just dropped a new @nbnfm_ original series, 25 episodes covering the full story of Rex Heuermann and the Gilgo Beach serial killings on Long Island, told through the news, court documents, forensic evidence, and firsthand testimony.
"Rex: The Gilgo Beach Architect" is out now on Spotify and Apple.
first 10 episodes are live, with the rest published every other day.
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site -
nbn.fm/rex-the-gilgo-beach-a…
spotify - open.spotify.com/show/3P6tIS…
apple (still indexing) - podcasts.apple.com/podcast/i…
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Apr 10
the stories we tell about neurodivergence tend to go in one of two directions:
1) either it is framed as a deficit, something to manage, accommodate, or medicate, or
2) it gets romanticized into some kind of superpower narrative that does not match the actual lived experience of struggling through systems that were not built for you.
what Neurodivergent is looking for is something in between, something that looks honestly at real people, at the full complexity of how their minds worked and how that played out across their lives, and lets you draw your own conclusions about what it means.
Apr 9
pretty crazy how many of the most iconic builders, athletes, and creatives in history were told their brain didn't work right.
we got inspired by this idea from Alex Karp of @PalantirTech and built a whole series around it called 'Neurodivergent'.
the goal behind this series is to show that the traits society tried to medicate, suppress, or fix were usually the exact traits that made these people impossible to ignore.
first 10 episodes live now. new episode everyday.
listen: nbn.fm/neurodivergent
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Apr 9
pretty crazy how many of the most iconic builders, athletes, and creatives in history were told their brain didn't work right.
we got inspired by this idea from Alex Karp of @PalantirTech and built a whole series around it called 'Neurodivergent'.
the goal behind this series is to show that the traits society tried to medicate, suppress, or fix were usually the exact traits that made these people impossible to ignore.
first 10 episodes live now. new episode everyday.
listen: nbn.fm/neurodivergent
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Apr 8
2 years from now at least 30% of new audio titans won’t be human
Apr 8
The ultimate roster:
1. Tech podcasts
2. Tech newsletters
Everyone is talking about creators being the new media.
So here they are!
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Apr 7
two months ago i spent a weekend pointing an ai at millions of epstein court documents, financial records, and deposition transcripts.
by monday it was on the charts.
a few weeks later it had 2.8 million downloads across 83 countries, and i still hadn't spent a single dollar on marketing.
that weekend changed how i think about media - everyone knows it's broken and i'm gonna try and fix it.
i realized the biggest bottleneck in media has never been the stories. it's been the human capital required to find them.
so i started a company to create media that i wanted to consume. i'm calling it the neural broadcast network (nbn.fm).
we're a technology-first media company producing original shows across politics, culture, business, science, and more, all sourced from public records, all cited, no spin. two shows live now, many more on the way.
the next great media company will make you wonder why you ever trusted the last one.
full story in today's newsletter.
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Mar 12
woke up to The Epstein Files hitting. No. 1 in the UK.
beat @ABC, @audible_com, @iHeartRadio, and the @BBCNews.
synthetic media will out-execute old media on cost, speed, and very soon authority.
just getting started.
Feb 11
vibe coded The Epstein Files podcast with Claude in a weekend and just crossed 100,000 downloads in its first week.
to put that in perspective:
the top 1% of all podcasts globally get around 5,000 downloads in their first 7 days. this did 100k. that's 20x the top 1% threshold.
the average podcast gets 141 downloads in its first 30 days. most spend 18 months trying to crack 1,000 per episode. a lot never get there and there are 4.5 million podcasts out there right now.
no fancy studio. no production team. just Claude, a mac mini, and a weekend of focused work curating the right approach to this series.
still processing this one honestly.
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Mar 11
new media beats old media on speed, cost, and scale.
we productized the OODA loop and hit nearly 2M podcast downloads in 30 days.
old media is cooked.
New media runs on speed.
@pmarca on the OODA loop:
"Speed wins."
"If you can have a sustainably faster OODA loop processing cycle than the next guy... then if you think about what happens — let's say it takes an hour to figure something out."
"It takes the other guy two hours to figure something out. Think about what happens is: you start out on even playing field. You both start your decision making cycles."
"You make your decision within an hour. The other guy is still say, is inside his own OODA loop when you make your decision, right?"
"He's only halfway through his process, he now has to start his process over, right — because you've changed the landscape. You've changed the parameters of what's going on. So he now has to go back and re-serve and reorient and start over."
Observe, orient, decide, action.
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Mar 11
launched War Desk 13 days ago and about to cross 33k total downloads.
the average new podcast gets 141 downloads per episode in its first 30 days.
our daily recaps are averaging 1,000 .
that's top 5% per episode on a 2-week-old show.
higher.
Feb 27
just dropped War Desk:
a post partisan, data-driven approach to documenting the escalating conflicts between the US, Iran, and the middle east at large.
to do this, we essentially built a new "truth machine" to fact check sources from multiple angles and provide a non-biased lens into a highly politically fueled conversation.
this was significantly harder to produce than The Epstein Files. we had to build our own internal equivalent of "community notes" on steroids just to process the raw intelligence without the spin.
it’s an ongoing investigation, and you can start listening right now.
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levy.eth retweeted
ANY PROBLEM IS NO PROBLEM is now available to watch on Apple TV and Prime Video with more platforms coming soon!
From the Oscar-nominated team at Actual Films and Emmy award-winning directors Alyssa Fedele and Zachary Fink, ANY PROBLEM IS NO PROBLEM captures the personal journeys of five young entrepreneurs.
In an industry often misrepresented by hype and stereotypes, this intimate portrayal reveals the grit, creativity, and passion required to make it as a startup founder in crypto, no matter the headwinds.
Thank you Brandon (@brandontory), Ellie (@elliefarrisi), Adam (@levychain), Chris (@creeefs), and Ryan (@RyanOuyang_ ) for sharing your stories. You continue to inspire us!
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Mar 7
starting to roll out clips to support discovery for each episode.
here's an example for episode 1.
Feb 11
vibe coded The Epstein Files podcast with Claude in a weekend and just crossed 100,000 downloads in its first week.
to put that in perspective:
the top 1% of all podcasts globally get around 5,000 downloads in their first 7 days. this did 100k. that's 20x the top 1% threshold.
the average podcast gets 141 downloads in its first 30 days. most spend 18 months trying to crack 1,000 per episode. a lot never get there and there are 4.5 million podcasts out there right now.
no fancy studio. no production team. just Claude, a mac mini, and a weekend of focused work curating the right approach to this series.
still processing this one honestly.
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Mar 4
.@ShaanVP: "I'm not safe as a podcaster" lol.
thanks @myfirstmilpod for mentioning The Epstein Files.
just crossed 1.5M downloads in 30 days and hit top 5 on Apple Podcasts and top 30 on Spotify.
the new series 'War Desk' is trending upwards and excited to see where we'll be at the end of the month.
the future is source-verified, synthetic media.
Feb 11
vibe coded The Epstein Files podcast with Claude in a weekend and just crossed 100,000 downloads in its first week.
to put that in perspective:
the top 1% of all podcasts globally get around 5,000 downloads in their first 7 days. this did 100k. that's 20x the top 1% threshold.
the average podcast gets 141 downloads in its first 30 days. most spend 18 months trying to crack 1,000 per episode. a lot never get there and there are 4.5 million podcasts out there right now.
no fancy studio. no production team. just Claude, a mac mini, and a weekend of focused work curating the right approach to this series.
still processing this one honestly.
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