Episode

Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Head of Podcast Product)

Maya Prohovnik, Spotify's head of product for podcasting and former employee number one at Anchor, explains why she dogfoods by running four of her own podcasts, and recounts Anchor's early "unscalable" hack of college interns manually submitting shows to Apple Podcasts. She describes pivoting Anchor twice against user feedback toward podcasting, balancing gut instinct with data, integrating into Spotify after acquisition, and lessons on productivity and public speaking.