

More and more creators are bringing their podcasts and shows to Spotify.

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^ "Spotify Names New Leader to Strategize Creator Growth"."Anchor is Spotify's best bet to beat Apple for control of your ears". "Lightspeed Venture Partners has hired podcasting guru Michael Mignano as a partner". In 2019, Mignano was featured as one of the main keynote speakers at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX. In 2022, it was announced that Mignano would be joining the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Lightspeed. In 2022, after announcing he'd be leaving Spotify to focus on early stage tech investing, Mignano introduced a new feature enabling users to create, edit, and share podcasts directly in the Spotify app. Under Mignano's leadership, Anchor has grown to power more than 75% of all podcasts. In February 2019, Anchor was acquired by Spotify for more than $150M and Mignano became responsible for overseeing the Swedish audio streaming company podcast tech business, as well as their expansion into video and live audio. The pair received financial backing from a variety of venture capitalists, including Accel, Google's venture arm GV, and the co-founders' former boss from Adobe, Scott Belsky. In 2016, after struggling to produce podcasts on his own, he started Anchor to make it easier for aspiring creators to broadcast audio with co-founder, Nir Zicherman. Mignano began his career in the music industry at Atlantic Records before transitioning into tech, first at photo-sharing platform Aviary and then Adobe. Mignano studied Computer Science at the University of Delaware. In 2019, Mignano was regarded by Fortune Magazine as one of the most influential young people in business in their annual "40 under 40" list. He is a venture capitalist at Lightspeed, the co-founder of the podcasting platform Anchor, and former head of Spotify's talk audio (podcasts, live, and video) business. Michael Mignano is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
