Pete Birsinger
CEO & Founder
Picasso (Tools For Podcast Advertisers)
Education
University of California, Berkeley
B.A., B.S., Electrical Engineering, Computer Science & Applied Mathematics
2013Podcasts
42:14442: What It’s Like to be a Serial Start-Up Entrepreneur in Your 20’s With Pete Birsinger, Picasso & Podible [Main T4C Episode]
Pete Birsinger is the CEO and Founder of Picasso, a program that helps brands with their advertising through the transcription and data collection of nearly one million podcasts. Pete also co-founded Podible, a multi-platform podcast app that learns what you love and suggests new podcasts based on your listening preferences...
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“Start to build your own projects on the side, ideally something that you can actually put out there live on the web so you can actually get feedback from it.”
Best Career Advice
“The goal is to build an online money tree, and the way you do that is by building an online business that can continue to grow and grow where you separate your time from the money that you earn.”
Career Challenge
“We ran out of money with Podible for the app and we had a bunch of employees and weren’t really sure what was going to go next. We had to lay off pretty much everyone there and it was a total collapse of our worldview, we thought this thing was going to work, and then we ran out of money and everything didn’t work.”
Skills
React.js, Spark, Scala, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, SQL, Python, Ruby, Java, Linux, Github, Ad Tech, Coding Tutoring
Professional Interests
Ray Dalio, University of California, Berkeley, Cisco Meraki, Tapad
