Marco Arment made some good arguments for keeping podcasting open versus what Spotify and others are trying to do these days. Worth a read: https://marco.org/2019/04/27/overcast-clip-sharing
About Luminaryโs $100 million: many of us are working 7 days a week on a tiny budget to build something we think is important, and Luminary and the like will light VC checks on fire to burn the podcast industry down around them if it means the chance to monetize an open platform.
