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OMG ARE YOU TOTALLY GOING TO RUIN THE APP AND MAKE US HATE YOU?! No, the whole team (Russell, Philip, Chris, Priya & Simon) are joining the new venture. WeвЂ™re not ready to talk about what those are just yet but we do want to quickly cover some questions you might have. Together we have the passion, scale and laser focus needed to achieve some truly great things. Everything from their not for profit mission focus, to their unwavering belief that open and collaborative wins over closed walled gardens resonated deeply with us. ThatвЂ™s why when a combined group comprised of WNYC, NPR, WBEZ and This American Life approached us with the goal of partnering for the good of the entire podcast industry, we knew that this opportunity was something else entirely. You see we care so damn deeply about what weвЂ™ve built and our relationship with each and every one of you that we know deep down inside that would just eat away at us. In talking to each of them it was obvious that they didnвЂ™t have the best interests of our customers or us at heart and as much as cashing out and walking off into the sunset is a nice ideal, itвЂ™s a crummy outcome for all of you and in turn for us.

WeвЂ™ve had a lot of companies in the past contact us about acquiring us and or Pocket Casts and weвЂ™ve always had one simple answer for them: thanks, but no thanks. Today weвЂ™re excited to announce a partnership with some of the biggest producers of podcasts in the world to take Pocket Casts to the next level. ItвЂ™s hard to describe but thereвЂ™s always been something supremely special about that.Д«ut Russell, you ask, why are you leading me down this rather long path of self introspection for 3 whole paragraphs is there a point to all this? Well dear reader, IвЂ™m glad you asked because yes, yes there is! One thing hasnвЂ™t changed though: Philip and I still use Pocket Casts every single day to listen to our favourite podcasts. ItвЂ™s been an amazing journey and the product has grown so much over the years. Literally anywhere you want to listen to podcasts (except your toaster sadly) you can.

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Syncing podcasts over to our iPods or iPhones manually was way too much of a pain and we decided that this was something we needed to fix.ДЇast forward to 8 years later and our little baby, Pocket Casts, is now available for iOS, Android, Web, Mac & Windows. Finding that app wasnвЂ™t hard: both Philip and I loved podcasts and there were no podcasting apps available. We needed a new app to make use of our newfound skills and our now full-time roles.

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Two years later in 2010 we decided that we liked this whole app development thing, so we quit our jobs and went full time. I mean letвЂ™s be honest, thatвЂ™s crazy, right? At one point I think we were on 1 in 5 iPhones in Australia. Somehow this little weather app rocketed to #1 in the Australian charts and surprised us both. We just wanted to build an Australian Weather app for iOS in our spare time after work, so we did. Not to wax too nostalgic on you all, but back in 2008 when Philip and I started Shifty Jelly (and picked that ridiculous name) we didnвЂ™t really have any lofty goals or ambitions.

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