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Two feedback points for the a16z podcast which I listen to regularly and think has some amazing in-depth content from a broad variety of topics: - a lot of epi

Two feedback points for the a16z podcast which I listen to regularly and think has some amazing in-depth content from a broad variety of topics: - a lot of episodes have too many people. It makes it really difficult (for me) to follow the discussion while constantly trying to distinguish different voices from one another. - a lot of episodes seem „jump cutted“. Question - answer - question - answer. There really is no conversation coming up (which make Podcasts attractive) and I immediately press next.

dpeck 9y ago
- a lot of episodes have too many people. 100% agreed, its tough to follow who is saying what, and especially difficult to get what each part of differing views is really saying.
- smc90 9y ago
  Def worth highlighting who is speaking as we go through more too!
smc90 9y ago
Hi - thanks for the feedback! We agree and are trying to limit number of guests (when we can - sometimes it's hard to cover a topic well), as well as better label voices as we go through as moderators. For edits, we try not to do jump cuts. You'd be surprised at how many people think a cut is a cut when it's the way it was... but then not catch the actual cut which was a blatant cut;)
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smc90 9y ago
and thank you too for the compliment re: "amazing in-depth content" ... there are often quite a few people involved behind the scenes, in addition to our great guests and experts (including many of our own folks internally)! Huge credit to them too. We do also edit to focus and remove sidebars, and increase info density. Not going to pretend we don't edit -- and I'd argue it's important! Recently, I was listening to an audio book and I had to skip the first two chapters which would have been fine in written form only, but in listening mode I just have less patience. Unless it's a "cult of personality" type show, where you are following because you're into a particular person. But we're more focused on our collective voices, including from network, so I def don't want it to be a cult of personality...
40acres 9y ago
Definitely agreed. Especially when it comes to the editing, it makes the podcast hard to follow when there isn't a natural flow to the conversations.

dpeck 9y ago

- a lot of episodes have too many people. 100% agreed, its tough to follow who is saying what, and especially difficult to get what each part of differing views is really saying.

smc90 9y ago
Def worth highlighting who is speaking as we go through more too!

smc90 9y ago

Hi - thanks for the feedback! We agree and are trying to limit number of guests (when we can - sometimes it's hard to cover a topic well), as well as better label voices as we go through as moderators. For edits, we try not to do jump cuts. You'd be surprised at how many people think a cut is a cut when it's the way it was... but then not catch the actual cut which was a blatant cut;)

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smc90 9y ago

and thank you too for the compliment re: "amazing in-depth content" ... there are often quite a few people involved behind the scenes, in addition to our great guests and experts (including many of our own folks internally)! Huge credit to them too. We do also edit to focus and remove sidebars, and increase info density. Not going to pretend we don't edit -- and I'd argue it's important! Recently, I was listening to an audio book and I had to skip the first two chapters which would have been fine in written form only, but in listening mode I just have less patience. Unless it's a "cult of personality" type show, where you are following because you're into a particular person. But we're more focused on our collective voices, including from network, so I def don't want it to be a cult of personality...

40acres 9y ago

Definitely agreed. Especially when it comes to the editing, it makes the podcast hard to follow when there isn't a natural flow to the conversations.