About Transistor.fm

Transistor's story so far

We make podcasting less confusing.

Record your audio and upload it to Transistor. We help you submit and distribute your show to platforms like Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Spotify.

We're more than hosting and analytics. We'll help answer your questions with our live chat and guides.

The Transistor team

Transistor.fm team - Justin Jackson (CEO), Jon Buda (President), Helen Ryles (Customer Success), Jason Pearl (Engineering), Michael Green (Customer Success)

Here's our team:

The Transistor story so far

Jon Buda and Justin Jackson met in Portland in 2014 at the XOXO Festival.

Jon and Justin met at XOXO in Portland, 2014

They were both into podcasting: Jon had built an early podcast hosting tool, and Justin had a podcast. They ended up hanging out quite a bit that week. In the following years, they met up numerous times and even built a few small projects together.

Fast forward to 2017. Jon was building a new podcast-hosting platform. Jon and Justin started talking about teaming up to build and launch it together.

They signed a partnership document in February 2018 and officially launched on August 1, 2018.

Justin Jackson and Jon Buda – founders of Transistor.fm

They podcasted publicly about their startup story: every week, they recorded a new episode and shared their experience building a company from the ground up.

In 2021, we hired Helen and Jason. In 2024, we hired Michael.

Today, we're a small (but mighty) team of five people.

Today, we serve over 30,000 podcasts of all types. Our customers include indie podcasters, small businesses, and enterprise companies.