- 48
- Episodes
- 28
- Transcribed
- 38
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Subversive
Subversive is a podcast dedicated to sharing stories from the best consumer subscription apps in the world. We'll bring you lessons for how to grow your consumer subscription business, including insights and inflection points that led to exponential growth from leaders at category-defining companies and innovative startups.
- Publisher
- Phil Carter
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Jan 2025
- Latest episode
- 29 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
28 of 48 episodes have a transcript.
29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Rise Turned “Sleep Debt” Into a 10M+ User Sleep App
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Tolan 3X'd Subscriber Conversion after Shifting to Freemium
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
DoorDash's Playbook for Scaling DashPass to 35M+ Members
Inside a recent episode
How Rise Turned “Sleep Debt” Into a 10M+ User Sleep App
Published 29 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] One is called a, you know, homeostatic system, which is, you can think about it as sleep pressure, which is that the more time you're awake, uh, the more multiple type of hormones and, and, and, and proteins built in your body. One of them is adenosine. And over time, you build something called sleep pressure. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Subversive
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Leon Sasson
- Jeff Kahn
- Jimmy Liu
- Edward Tian
- Mike Maser
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 12 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 26 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100
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- Quality
- 77
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes bi-weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Subversive take guests?
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