Hi and welcome to The Visile newsletter!

The Visile is a monthly newsletter focused around startup + tech podcasts. Every issue carries our commentary with the key highlights of seven to 10 startup + tech podcasts, along with links to their transcripts. The newsletter is typically published on or by the 1st Saturday of every month.

The newsletter is co-authored by Rohit Kaul, a marketer by profession and a writer by avocation.

Why ‘The Visile’?

At the heart of The Visile is an earned secret - that podcasts have the highest signal to noise ratio of any piece of content in the startup and tech world.

The startup world doesn't have the equivalent of a Harvard Business Review or similar high quality trade rag, which distills and showcases the best content / frameworks. Added to this is the fact that the startup world is fast-moving and ever evolving. Learning is accelerated here. Startup playbooks are developing and evolving all the time.

Time is short in the startup world though. It is difficult for founders and investors to take time out of their schedules and put their thoughts together. It takes anywhere from three to six hours to write a decent piece, more, if they are writing one with a lot of analysis. Some founders do take time out to write, but not all do. Also, even those who write cannot write as frequently as they would like to.

This is why podcasts matter.

Podcasts allow the leading founders and investors to spend an hour or so, and share their best ideas and learnings. In addition there is considerable curation and filtering going into picking the podcast guest, especially for the leading podcasts. Further the effort bar for generation of content by the guest is low. The result is compelling and valuable content, one that would not have easily been available otherwise.

Thus in the startup and venture investing world, podcasts play an outsized role in knowledge dissemination, often comparable to the written word. Despite this, many see podcasts as a secondary content medium, compared to essays and long-form writing, or even twitter threads.

The Visile is an experiment to change this perception.

What is ‘The Visile’?

The Visile is a monthly newsletter. In each issue, we will surface seven to 10 high quality podcasts, curated from a list of 50+ podcasts we track, across startups, entrepreneurship, podcasts, investing and leadership. For each of these selected podcasts, we will share our notes on why we found them compelling and share three to five learnings or takeaways; And, oh, we will also link to the transcripts, or share links of transcripts for podcasts that don’t have one!

Oh, and what does visile mean? It means a person who absorbs information visually, typically by reading. This is in contrast to an audile, someone who absorbs information by talking to others or listening. Since we are consuming podcast information by reading, we thought The Visile was an apt name!

We hope you will enjoy The Visile.

You can reach us anytime at <thevisilenewsletter@gmail.com>. Feedback is welcome.

- Rohit

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