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Rob Pugh

Product and marketing leader at Automattic working on Jetpack (formerly VP of Marketing, Jetpack); featured on WP Tavern discussing Jetpack's podcasting tools.

Oct 8, 2026

Wheeler & Tyler

Wheeler & Tyler

Holy Delay, Batman

Oct 8 · 1h 5m

Dave Wheeler
Dave WheelerHOST
57:21
Like, g- give me an idea of what one of the sketches would be like.
Rob PughGUEST
57:24
Well, we tried to do something like, uh, like an SNL or, you know.
Rob PughGUEST
57:28
Like, so we tried to just, you know, take a everyday news...
Rob PughGUEST
57:30
It was news oriented, so we'd, you know, take the headlines and then either make a sketch about them or, or, you know, do, like, a top 10 list and all this stuff.
Rob PughGUEST
57:39
It was very run-of-the-mill, you know?
Dave Wheeler
Dave WheelerHOST
59:28
Stop.
Rob PughGUEST
59:28
Like, it was a real, like, high school production.
Rob PughGUEST
59:31
And, um, you know, we had real people working on this show too, but, you know, s- lights would be out one episode and they...
WP Tavern

WP Tavern

#235 – Rob Pugh and Tony Arcangelini on Bringing Podcasting to Jetpack

Sep 30 · 33m

Nathan WrigleyHOST
22:31
Is there any other secret sauce that we've missed there? Is there any other sort of unique binding that Jetpack brings that we haven't mentioned there?
Rob PughGUEST
22:37
I'll take it back first to why we started this and decided to build this.
Rob PughGUEST
22:41
And I think you're exactly right.
Rob PughGUEST
22:43
First, we found there are lots of WordPress.com and Jetpack users who have podcasts somewhere else.
Rob PughGUEST
22:49
And that's fine, but they were forced to because we didn't offer it.
Rob PughGUEST
22:51
And that really makes sense.
Rob PughGUEST
22:53
Why would you need to go somewhere else? As you say today, our goal in creating it was twofold for the people creating the platform.
Nathan WrigleyHOST
24:44
What do we need to toggle on? How do we set it up? How expensive is it? Let's start there.
Jukebox

Jukebox

#235 – Rob Pugh and Tony Arcangelini on Bringing Podcasting to Jetpack

Sep 30 · 33m

Nathan WrigleyHOST
22:31
Is there any other secret sauce that we've missed there? Is there any other sort of unique binding that Jetpack brings that we haven't mentioned there?
Rob PughGUEST
22:37
I'll take it back first to why we started this and decided to build this.
Rob PughGUEST
22:41
And I think you're exactly right.
Rob PughGUEST
22:43
First, we found there are lots of WordPress.com and Jetpack users who have podcasts somewhere else.
Rob PughGUEST
22:49
And that's fine, but they were forced to because we didn't offer it.
Rob PughGUEST
22:51
And that really makes sense.
Rob PughGUEST
22:53
Why would you need to go somewhere else? As you say today, our goal in creating it was twofold for the people creating the platform.
Nathan WrigleyHOST
24:44
What do we need to toggle on? How do we set it up? How expensive is it? Let's start there.

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