Podcasting could be in for a rocky 2023

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This story originally appeared in Hot Pod Insider, The Verge’s newsletter about the biggest events in audio. You can sign up here. It feels like 2022 was the year when podcasting came back to earth. After years of go-go growth, podcast hits going mainstream, major corporate … Read more

What to expect from AI in 2023

As a rather commercially successful author once wrote, “the night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope.” It’s fitting imagery for AI, which like all tech has its upsides and downsides. Art-generating models like Stable Diffusion, for instance, have led to incredible outpourings of creativity, powering apps … Read more

High-growth startups should start de-risking their path to IPO now

Carl Niedbala Contributor Share on Twitter Carl Niedbala is COO and co-founder of Founder Shield, a commercial insurance broker. High-growth companies often set significant goals, knowing full well that the idea of “overnight success” is for the storybooks. However, there is no better time than the middle of a market downturn to start planning for … Read more