It started with a simple question.
I was running a small business and needed to find podcasts where my customers hung out. Simple enough, right?
But the moment I started looking, I hit a wall.
Over 100 million podcast episodes exist — yet I couldn't search inside a single one. I couldn't find topics, explore ideas, or discover the exact moment something relevant was said.
Podcasts are where people think out loud. Why can't we search them like the rest of the internet?
That question changed everything.
I realized audio is the largest unindexed knowledge source we haven't tapped yet. Billions of hours of human conversation — completely unsearchable by meaning.
PodWave was born from that gap: a small marketing question that uncovered a missing layer of the internet.