
A strange download spike became Chartable. A childhood coding habit became a career. Now the founder of Nori is proving that his real product is a durable way of noticing what does not make sense yet.
It started as one guy on Reddit asking whether an IMDb for podcasts existed. Nobody had built it, so Bradley Davis did - and sold it to Acast for up to $34 million.
Peter Birsinger is the founder and CEO of Podscribe, an ad verification and attribution platform that uses a mix of AI and human review to confirm that podcast and YouTube ads actually ran and to measure the ROI they drive. A UC Berkeley electrical engineering and applied math graduate, he wrote code at Cisco Meraki and led R&D engineering at Tapad before co-founding the podcast app Podible in 2016 and then launching Podscribe in 2019. He turned the unglamorous problem of proving an audio ad was read aloud into a measurement company that transcribes every episode, labels the ads, and ties listens to conversions.