by Steve Goldstein In this guest column, Steve Goldstein reproduces a conversation with Joel Sucherman, NPR’s Vice President for New Platform Partnerships, about podcast subscriptions. Sucherman illuminates NPR's basic strategy points, and reveals how local NPR radio stations are involved in that strategy. Continue Reading →
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Guy Raz is an acclaimed radio and podcast personality described by The New York Times as “one of the most popular podcasters in history.” His show, How I Built This, features in-depth interviews with the world’s greatest innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
He is the author of “How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs,” offering insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture.
Casalena considered the offer long and hard, but he didn t want to give up control. Instead, he opted to stay independent and bring in outside investors for the first time, allowing him to accelerate hiring and product development and also sell some of his stock.
He didn t know it at the time, but in raising a $38.5 million financing round, Casalena was making a billion-dollar decision for himself and a highly lucrative one for venture firms Index Ventures and Accel Partners.
Squarespace, which sells tools for easy website creation and publishing, debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday with a market value of $6.6 billion. Casalena, the company s biggest stakeholder, owns shares worth $2.4 billion, while Index and Accel control holdings valued at $944 million and $750 million, respectively.
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Morning Edition, NPR s award-winning newsmagazine. He has been at NPR since 1999.
At NPR, Harrell has worked on a variety of shows and produced a little bit of everything from politics to pop music. Most memorably, he worked through the nights after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and after the death of President Ronald Reagan, producing mini-documentaries about each story for
Weekend Edition.
Harrell got his start in radio as a rock n roll DJ/program director at progressive WRNR in Annapolis, MD. He later co-created the
Bob Edwards Show for XM and
Bob Edwards Weekend for PRI.
Harrell has won numerous awards for his excellence in production. In 2006 and 2011, he led the teams that claimed the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award. In addition, he won the Gabriel Award in both 2012 and 2014 with hosts Guy Raz and Arun Rath.