Kirill Zubovsky: The World of Podcasting

For the last couple of years, I've been basically focused on being at home with my family and spending time with the kids. And it's been invaluable experience. And I find it odd that we force people to go to office to commute to, you know, spend hours and hours every week outside of the things that makes them happy, pretending that if they show up in the office, it's something they're going to be more productive. This whole like 8 hour work week is back from like Henry Ford assembly line days. Why are we still doing it? I mean, if you want to go to the office, go for it. But I think if you can be productive in four hours from your kitchen, go for it. Because you'll do more than somebody who spent 12 hours in the office.

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. Today I interviewed Kirill Zhybuski, who is the founder of Smash Notes and a former Y Combinator graduate, and we had a really interesting discussion about podcasting. He is building this really interesting product which essentially allows you to edit podcasts and then create questions around the audio content and so that people can read what the person is telling. And it's all user generated content. And it's a really interesting idea. It's an idea I had for myself. And then I found him and I

was like, wow, this that.

This is exactly my idea. Why don't I just use yours? It's gonna make it easier for me. And we actually collaborated on. He invited me to do a guest Smash Notes weekly recap of the best podcast episode that I had found, which was Peter Thiel's episode with Eric Weidenstein, which was really interesting for me to listen to. And then I created a mix up of their podcast mixed with some of one clip of my episode with Dhane Gupta. So it's really interesting. This conversation we had was really great. I really enjoyed doing it. And I just want to let you guys know, I am starting to take applications for an online course with Anders Jones, who rose $40 million in a series A. And we are going to do an online course for startups looking to fundraise for their distributed team. So raising money in order to build a distributed team. That's not all the stuff we're going to talk about. We're also going to talk about hyper growth scale, the period of hyper growth for an organization and how to manage that as a startup founder. So if you'd like more information on that, please find my blog@stuartalsop.substack.com and yeah, just sign up for the blog stuartalsop.substack.Com I'll be including more information on how you can apply. So hope you enjoy this episode. Please let me know if you have any thoughts. Have a great day.