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WaitWhat turns a good conversation into a business
The company behind Masters of Scale treats a podcast as the beginning. Courses, partnerships and a $3,750 summit reveal what happens after people press play.
Soy Sauce and the art of taking a local voice national
A chef with a Southern California audience. A deal for 63 markets. Soy Sauce Media’s radio business shows how an established voice can travel farther with the right partners.
Stephanie Wachs Built a Media Company for the Conversations We Usually Avoid
She turned a rejected podcast pitch into Lemonada Media. Now, as CEO, Stephanie Wittels Wachs is betting that intimate, un-Googleable conversations can carry an audio company into its next act.
What Creators Can Steal From the Grief Podcast That Built a Reported $30 Million Company
Lemonada began with two women, two lost brothers and one costly narrative show. Six years later, a format pivot, host-read ads and famous-but-human conversations helped produce a majority-stake deal reportedly worth about $30 million.
Rebel Girls
Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform empowerment brand for Generation Alpha girls, built around true stories of extraordinary women. What began as a record-breaking Kickstarter book, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, has grown into a franchise of best-selling books, an award-winning podcast, an Apple Design Award-winning app, and a licensed merchandise line. A certified B Corporation and Women-Owned business, Rebel Girls has sold roughly 13 million books across 62 languages, logged more than 30 million podcast downloads, and set a goal of reaching 50 million girls.
Quinn
Quinn is a Santa Monica-based audio erotica platform - often described as a 'Spotify for erotica' - that turns intimate, narrative-driven stories into 15-to-20-minute immersive audio experiences. Founded by Caroline Spiegel and built primarily for women and underserved audiences, Quinn pairs a creator-driven content marketplace with an ever-growing roster of professional voice actors and Hollywood celebrities. With roughly 300,000 users, over 900,000 TikTok followers, and around $5M in annual recurring revenue, it has reframed adult content around imagination, storytelling, and discreet listening rather than the visual mainstream.
Caroline Spiegel
Caroline Spiegel is the founder and CEO of Quinn, a Santa Monica-based audio erotica platform built around female-centered, imagination-first storytelling. She started the company in 2019 as a Stanford senior after her own recovery experience convinced her that the mental, non-visual side of intimacy was a market nobody served well. Quinn has grown into a creator marketplace and celebrity-voiced studio with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, more than $12 million in annual recurring revenue, and a roster of name actors lending their voices to original audio.