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Five years ago, StartUp began chronicling the life of a fledgling Brooklyn-based podcasting company called Gimlet Media. This year, the streaming giant Spotify bought that company. In the final season of StartUp, what it's really like to sell a business. [more inside]
posted by General Malaise on Oct 20, 2019 - 2 comments

Gimlet co-founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber are pretty much on the same page...right? This week, we put their relationship to the test. Producer Luke Malone got Matt and Alex into separate studios and asked them the same set of questions. Then, Matt and Alex listened back to each other's answers and find out if they're really as in sync as they thought. Do the same things keep them up at night? Do they want the same things for the company? And what were their first impressions of one another? [more inside]
posted by radioamy on Apr 6, 2018 - 1 comment

It's never fun when one of your more socially-underdeveloped relatives comes to where you work and embarrasses you in front of your colleagues. It's even worse when you're changelings. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Nov 17, 2016 - 7 comments

Reassigned from commanding the Defiant, Sisko copes with loss—and back on the station, Odo makes a moist new friend. Meanwhile, the Dominion discovers a way to bring down the minefield that's keeping their reinforcements on the other side of the wormhole, and only Rom can stop them. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 14, 2016 - 15 comments

Odo receives a sick infant Changeling from Quark and tries to teach it to shapeshift without resorting to the invasive techniques used by his old mentor, Doctor Mora. Meanwhile, Major Kira gives birth to the O'Briens' baby. [more inside]
posted by Slothrop on May 13, 2016 - 10 comments

Odo spills butterscotch pudding everywhere. Garak suggests housewarming presents for the Founders' new home planet. [more inside]
posted by Slothrop on Mar 30, 2016 - 12 comments