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Listeners from zero to one, listening to no podcast, to listening to at least one podcast. and that will get more listeners spending more time with audio spoken audio in their ears. i think spotify has the opportunity to use its landscape, to use its apps, to use all of the infrastructure that it has to bring more potential listeners into the fold. i think the key is that daniel ek has sort of implied that he sees spotify's podcasting mission as mature now, that it should be evidencing its successes now. and i think that's the whole industry, which is always treated as kind of nascent, on the ...

Offering — some people listening might be thinking, well, if they're not making money, who can? it's100% not a podcast problem. this is a spotify problem. spotify is not making money. it has never made money. and it has a complicated rights deal with music studios, record labels, artists that has basically bled into its podcast offering, and they try to use podcasts as maybe a way of simplifying that difficult rights relationship. but it hasn't worked. and spotify needs to prove that it's going to be a profitable company in the next few years. otherwise, its investors are going to start to a...

Well, if they're not making money, who can? it's100% not a podcast problem. this is a spotify problem. spotify is not making money. it has never made money. and it has a complicated rights deal with music studios, record labels, artists that has basically bled into its podcast offering, and that they try to use podcast as maybe a way of simplifying that difficult rights relationship. but it hasn't worked. and spotify needs to prove that it's going to be a profitable company in the next few years. otherwise, its investors are going to start to ask a lot, lot more and not more interrogatory ques...