TLS100: Oscar Merry on Fountain's Evolution, Nostr, Value 4 Value, and Creator Monetization

Mar 13 2023 • 1hr 23m

Show Notes

Oscar Merry is the co-founder and CEO of Fountain, and was actually the very first guest on this podcast back when it started in late 2021.
In our conversation, we covered Fountain’s evolution in the last year, the role of Nostr on Fountain, and of course the concepts of value for value and creator monetization in general.
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
02:27 - Oscar Merry Intro
10:51 - Lessons From Fountain’s Listeners
14:48 - Why Don’t Legacy Podcast Apps Have Messages?
19:50 - How Should Social Media Timelines Be Structured?
31:28 - Listen To Earn on Fountain
40:20 - Does Earning Money Change Engagement?
41:32 - Nostr’s Role on Fountain
48:40 - How To Help Podcasters Upgrade to Podcasting 2.0
1:02:31 - Creator Monetization & Value 4 Value
1:14:36 - The Lightning Round

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@iluvsushi

22,222 sats

Mar 13 2023

Oscar is one of my favorite interviewees. Thanks for having him back for a follow-up.

@nick

20,000 sats

Mar 13 2023

Congrats on #100! Here’s 100 sats for every episode so far plus another 10,000 as a bonus. Keep up the great content Kevin!

@marcossv50

Mar 22 2023

great job supporting content creators 👍

@meremortalspodcast

2,222 sats

Mar 15 2023

Oscar is a legend, Fountain is close to my top used app. Really encouraged to see all the progress that has been made since your first episode. Congrats on 100 🥳

@northofthewall

2,121 sats

3 May

Fountain is outstanding! Did you know that the Fountain-team only consists of four employees? If you can, ahow Fountain some support with Fountain Premium, so that Oscar and his team can develop an even better product⚡️

@nulegacy

1,000 sats

Mar 14 2023

Great to hear the progress of Fountain.fm. Looking forward to your 200th episode. 👍🏾

@vake

1,000 sats

Mar 14 2023

fountain has come a long way

@user362286778381810

1,000 sats

Mar 13 2023

watched on YouTube. interesting product

@tonyfontana

800 sats

Mar 14 2023

Always nice to have an update from Oscar. Thanks!

@orangepillapp

500 sats

Mar 17 2023

great episode guys 🔥

@nabingyawali0

Apr 18 2023

⚡🧡

@orangepillapp

500 sats

Mar 13 2023

amazing episode as always

@unitofacc

121 sats

Mar 13 2023

🤙

@coachcarbon

100 sats

Mar 15 2023

Congratulations on episode 100! 👏🏾 s/o to Oscar too, Fountain is the way! ⛲️🎙🎧🧡 #Value4Value #SatsTheStandard

@tnstacker

100 sats

Mar 15 2023

Excellent interview. Are we seeing our way to direct monitization of everything? I imagine a world where we walk around zapping each other IRL. Pay for that coffee - zap the store. Really like that server, zap the server, not the store. Hey, miss nice shoes! ZAP! ZAP! Less than ten years?

@teemupleb

Mar 24 2023

And a microchip Lightning node in our brain so we can ZAP telepathically 😂

@oscar

100 sats

Apr 11 2023

test2

@teemupleb

100 sats

Mar 24 2023

Bullish on live podcasts. They could be like Twitter Spaces, but with a value layer.

@john_f