No Agenda Episode 1786, Podcast Exit Strategy Origins
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 1786 of the No Agenda show from Texas and Silicon Valley. They discuss the origins of their "exit strategy" running gag, tracing it back to their early days at Mevio and Podshow. The concept stems from Silicon Valley lingo regarding IPOs and acquisitions, which they adapted to the realization that podcasts have no traditional exit.
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00:00 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak It's Thursday July 31st 2025 this is your award-winning Get My Nation Media Assassination episode 1786 This is no agenda Looking for the exit and broadcasting almost live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number 6 In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where I am also almost live I'm John C. Dvorak I know a lot of people are looking forward to this episode for a very long time. Well, you've been high on this episode for some time because it is maybe the funniest episode we've ever played? I really think so and right off the bat i gotta give props to Sir Deenonymous from Clip Genie noagenda.clipgenie.com also known as bingit.io
00:57 Because ever since we introduced bingit.io, it's just been an amazing experience for people to go in and just think of ways that they can put together a best-of show You know what I mean? Especially to put in exit strategy, search. Yeah. Boom! A show. Exactly. And so Circumference John Jensen's Circumference he did exactly that and he put this together a while back you know it's like hey you know i've got a good idea uh when i played some of these uh like the first couple clips for Tina and she doesn't know all of our stuff she's you know she's only been around for 10 years we had seven years before that she knows nothing about
01:45 She was cracking up. She had never heard of it. It is probably ideas Yes, you're right the dumb ideas Exactly but are they really? Are they I think of moneymakers maybe just explain to people I mean do even know how this started how we started looking for exit strategies and I think it started off as a lark. It was a punchline to something one of the other, either you said or I said and one of us said the other one encountered with oh there's an exit strategy because exit strategy is a term that used a lot in Silicon Valley we're both familiar with their lingo
02:25 And so we picked it up and then we started, you know somebody said at first either one of us could have been. I'm not sure but then it became a running gag or... No here's what I think happened and it started early on very early on where were looking at this and saying yeah we're working so because I think that it must have been Mevio must've seen might even been Pod Show days I don't know We must be sitting there now you don't think it was pod show days? Was it Mevio? Yeah. I think we were both talking about, you know, we got this show but How do we punch out of this? You know, it's like the whole idea in Silicon Valley is you have an exit. You got IPO, you're going to get acquired, you're gonna sell... Yeah, exit strategy and yeah, and we realized that there's no way to have an exit strategy for a podcast. You just do it until you die or at least some one of us dies! Until you come up with an exit strategy. And the first one we came up with was a doozy
