Read What Matters with Ben Springwater - [Making Media, EP.56]

Read What Matters with Ben Springwater - [Making Media, EP.56]

Author: Colossus | Investing & Business Podcasts February 15, 2024 Duration: 59:01
Our guest today is Ben Springwater. Ben is the founder of Matter, a reading app that pulls everything you want to read into one place with curation, audio, and more. There are constant frustrations with how we get served media, as there's infinite content, and it's harder and harder to separate the good from the bad. Ben is working to solve that problem.  He shares what it's like to build a product like Matter and gives insight into how Matter’s team makes decisions around the technical and human challenges that come into play.  An avid reader and content consumer himself, we then asked Ben for some of his favorite recommendations, all linked below. Please enjoy this conversation with Ben Springwater. Ben’s Recommended Content:  The Road to Self-Renewal  Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijaking Utopia The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ----- Making Media is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Making Media, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @ReustleMatt | @domcooke | @MakingMediaPod | @JoinColossus  Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Show Notes  (00:00) Welcome to Making Media (01:36) The Challenges of Building a Product Like Matter (03:41) The Power of Curation in the Digital Age (08:03) The Future of Recommendation Systems (15:26) The Challenges of Building a User-Centric Product (22:14) The Intersection of Reading and Listening in the Digital Age (25:12) The Business Model of Matter (27:04) Ben’s Recommendation #1: The Road to Self-Renewal  (33:14) Ben’s Recommendation #2: Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijaking Utopia (42:38) Ben’s Recommendation #2: The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic (51:19) The Importance of Being An Enthusiast (52:06) Debrief

Matt Reustle and Dom Cooke have spent years analyzing companies as investors, but found themselves drawn into a new, messy, and fascinating world: building a media company from the ground up. Their Making Media podcast, from Colossus | Investing & Business Podcasts, is the raw audio journal of that transition. Instead of theory, you get the real-time experiments, stumbles, and occasional breakthroughs of two practitioners who are actively trying to construct something lasting. Each conversation pulls back the curtain with seasoned media operators who have navigated these waters, offering hard-won tactical advice rarely shared publicly. Between these interviews, Matt and Dom hold themselves accountable, documenting the progress of their own ventures and breaking down the books, articles, and interviews that shape their thinking. The underlying mission gives this business and entrepreneurship podcast its pulse: a genuine fight to create substantive, long-form content in an economy increasingly optimized for fleeting clicks. For anyone curious about the operational realities of publishing, audience building, and sustainable creation, this series feels like getting a direct feed from the workshop floor, where ideas are forged into tangible assets.
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