Product Hunt Radio is back
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I’ve been an avid listener of podcasts since I got my first iPod. They kept me entertained and enlightened while mowing my parent’s yard, driving to school, and traveling to soccer tournaments.
In 2014, shortly after Product Hunt started, we were inspired to start our own podcast. We named it Product Hunt Radio, which felt delightfully nostalgic.
Over the following two years, Erik Torenberg and I recorded more than 100 episodes with a wide range of guests including notable entrepreneurs (e.g. Tim Ferris, Alexis Ohanian, Brit Morin), reporters (e.g. Sarah Buhr, Ann Friedman), investors (e.g. Sarah Tavel, Troy Carter, Chris Sacca), and occasionally entertainers (e.g. Mike Shinoda, G-Eazy, Amanda Palmer).
We had fun recording these shows and the community seemed to enjoy it… before we retired it in 2016. At the time, the podcast was not a priority for us as we narrowed our focus on expanding the community.
Podcasts, the fastest growing medium
Since Product Hunt Radio’s silent parting, the (still tiny) podcast industry has continued to blossom as audio/voice-based devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home infiltrated homes across the country, creating even more opportunities for listeners to get hooked on the medium as I did.
Today, we’re re-introducing Product Hunt Radio with a new cast and format.
We’re much better equipped to produce and distribute a podcast that we hope people will enjoy. Our audience is much bigger, our team is operationally stronger than ever, and we’ve established great relationships with several partners to help support the show.
So, we’re bringing it back
Product Hunt Radio is reborn as a weekly show, hosted by myself alongside the people building, shaping, and funding the future of tech and culture. You’ll hear from people you recognize (and potentially follow on Twitter) and makers you should know (and follow on Twitter) that are doing amazing work behind-the-scenes. Some of the guests you’ll hear from in the coming weeks:
- Ada Chen Rekhi, Founder of Notejoy, a new productivity startup
- Alexia Bonatsos, former co-editor at TechCrunch and current GP of a new venture fund, Dream Machine
- Andrew Chen, former Growth at Uber and recent GP addition to Andreessen Horowitz
- Allison Esposito, founder of Tech Ladies based out of New York
- Anil Dash, CEO of a super cool developer community called Glitch
- Brian Norgard, Chief Product Officer of the wildly popular app, Tinder
- Courtland Allen, founder of Indie Hackers, a community inspiring the next generation of business builders
- Drake Rehfeld, young CEO of a super creative YC-backed startup, Splish
- Erik Torenberg, co-founder of a new network-driven VC firm, Village Global, and former teammate of mine
- Garry Tan, former founder and Y Combinator partner, now the Managing Partner at Initialized
- Jeff Morris Jr., long-time Product Hunt community member and Director of Product at Tinder
- John Shahidi, building the future of digital entertainment as the CEO of Shots
- Kat Manalac, long-time Partner at Y Combinator and responsible for much of its global growth
- Michael Seibel, CEO of a little incubator you might have heard of named Y Combinator
- Niko Bonatsos, Managing Director at General Catalyst with investments in Snap, Discord, Atrium, Wag, and more
- Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, a company we admire that builds a product that helps us make us money 🙂
- Sarah Buhr, reporter at TechCrunch and new mother (congrats, Sarah!)
- Sophia Amoruso, CEO of Girlboss, an inspiring startup and community supporting professional women
- Suzy Ryoo, LA-based investing partner at Atom Factory and Cross Culture Ventures
- Tiffany Zhong (aka the Gen Z whisperer), founder of Zebra Intelligence
Our goal is to recreate Product Hunt in audio form. We’ll discuss the latest tech trends and awesome products you probably don’t know about. But this time around, we’re including you on the show with community call-ins.
Each week we’ll host a different prompt. Call (707) 785–6152 to chime in and we might include it on the show. It’ll be fun. 😊
The first episode will drop soon so be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, Overcast, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
Big thanks to our partners, Airtable, GE Ventures, Intercom and Stripe for their support. You’ll hear more about them on the show. 🙌🏼