Making Media
How to build a media business by two outsiders learning the craft. Matt Reustle and Dom Cooke have decades of experience in investing but almost none in the media industry. In each episode, they talk to great media operators, document their own media building efforts, and dissect their favorite business content. Join these two content junkies in their fight to save long-form media against the attention span crisis. Join the resistance. Learn more and stay up to date at www.joincolossus.com. An entrepreneurship show, by entrepreneurs, for the entrepreneur.
Episodes
Every Things, Everywhere, All at Once with Dan Shipper - [Making Media, EP.61]
Tim Ferriss - Curating Curiosities - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
Undisputed Media Lessons with Mike Stricoff - [Making Media, EP.60]
Business, Culture, and Content with Emily Sundberg - [Making Media, EP.59]
Building a Podcast Empire with Jack Davenport - [Making Media, EP.58]

Decoding Media with Peter Kafka - [Making Media, EP.57]
Media business models currently face a transition from growth-at-all-costs to a focus on sustainable profitability, exemplified by Netflix’s pivot from aggressive subscriber acquisition to bottom-line performance. Local news remains in an existential crisis, lacking a viable for-profit model as traditional distribution...
Read What Matters with Ben Springwater - [Making Media, EP.56]
A 30,000 Foot View of Niche Media Businesses with Jon Ostrower - [Making Media, EP.55]
Spike Eskin - What Sports Media Can Teach Us - [Making Media, REPLAY]
Building The Athletic with Adam Hansmann - [Making Media, EP.54]
Walking the Fairways with CBS Sports Writer Kyle Porter - [Making Media, EP.53]
2023 Recap - [Making Media, EP.52]
The Evolution of FreightWaves with Craig Fuller - [Making Media, EP.51]
A Lesson in Paid Growth with Jonathan Becker - [Making Media, EP.50]
The North Face Presents with Kaki Orr - [Making Media, EP.49]
Best Books, Movies, and Podcasts of 2023 with Web Barr - [Making Media, EP.48]
The Story of Stripe Press with Tamara Winter - [Making Media, EP.47]
The MCU: A Marvel Deep-Dive with Joanna Robinson - [Making Media, EP.46]
Inside Architectural Digest with Amy Astley - [Making Media, EP.45]
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