Marco Arment, who helped build Tumblr and sold it for a billion dollars, tells Gimlet not to build an app — and explains exactly why.
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Gimlet's platform ambition meets the practical pressure of focus, hiring, and outside design help.
StartUp catches Gimlet at the point where a founder's big platform dream has to survive contact with actual work. Alex rewinds to an early conversation with Matt Lieber, before jobs had been quit, money raised, or the podcast launched, when Matt is pushing the idea of marrying…
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Hear Gimlet before it had funding, a launched show, or even a finished plan.
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