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Aakash Gupta
Personal blog · aakashg.combusinessstartups
Aakash Gupta writes Product Growth, a personal blog at aakashg.com about business and startups. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this for a 2021 post on Spotify overtaking Apple in monthly regular podcast listeners. The one comment cites it as a source for a point about podcast business models and ads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Aakash Gupta is a product leader with 15+ years of experience, rising to VP at a unicorn. Now he writes a newsletter and hosts a podcast.
What Hacker News says?
By making more off of ads and subscriptions than they pay, the same way they are profiting off of music? That's how their business works, right? About a year ago Spotify surpassed Apple for monthly regular podcast listeners. https://www.aakashg.com/2021/12/14/spotify-podcasts-apple/ Some portion of spotify podcasts are "spotify exclusive" (that they pay the creators for, and that can only be listened to on spotify a…
Comment linking /2021/12/14/spotify-podcasts-apple/
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