Gimlet Media’s Alex Blumberg talks diversity and Hollywood ambitions

PodDaily » Gimlet Media’s Alex Blumberg talks diversity and Hollywood ambitions

Plenty of media companies are grappling with how to recruit and maintain diverse talent. But how many of them are openly discussing their own pitfalls on the air?

Gimlet Media is. On Friday, the narrative audio company released an Ask Me Anything-type episode of StartUp, a podcast about what it’s like to get a business up and running. In the episode, host Alex Blumberg, who doubles as CEO and co-founder of Gimlet, takes questions from listeners about everything from the company’s diversity problems to its Hollywood ambitions.

“The drama does not stop once you raise that first round (of funding), people, let me tell ya,” Blumberg said at the start of the show, which started out as a podcast documenting the formation of Gimlet.

Blumberg, a This American Life and Planet Money alum, founded Gimlet in Brooklyn in 2014 with Matt Lieber, a former podcast and radio producer for shows such as On Point and Slate’s Culture Gabfest. Since then, the company has grown substantially…

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