Startup Growth Podcast

Jayden Clark didn’t abandon music. He re-scored it for distribution. 

After music school, a hedge fund tour, and a B2B SaaS sprint, he launched MOTS—short, sharp episodes designed to be both of the moment and built to last a quarter. 

His north star isn’t “go viral.” It’s “be clear.”

The insight is disarmingly pragmatic: structure is not the enemy of creativity—it’s the amplifier. Lists compress cognition. 

A beginning–build–end gives every clip a runway and a landing. 

When a five-replies-deep roast on X unexpectedly detonated, MOTS podcast already had the scaffolding to catch the surge. That’s the signature move: follow a consistent weekly cadence, then publish “emergency episodes” when the culture pops. 

The result is a feed that feels alive without feeling random.
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Key Topics Covered
  • Career path: SF Conservatory → hedge fund → B2B SaaS → MOTS + Atlas Media Labs
  • Jazz formulas = content formulas: two-five-one progressions, building blocks, beginning-middle-end
  • Why lists work: digestibility, structure, pattern-matching
  • "Neither timely nor timeless": weekly SF tech culture + emergency current-thing episodes
  • Emergency episode #1: Brian Chesky's bench press 
  • The viral ratio: Meta Ray-Bans clip → five-tweets-deep → Theo's reply → Seth's "roast" GIF
  • "16 hours of screen time": the competitive advantage
  • Distribution strategy across Twitter, YouTube, Apple, Spotify
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Timestamps:
00:20) "neither timely nor timeless"
(00:51) Keeping the music alive
(02:10) SF Music → hedge fund → SaaS → pod
(03:20) Jazz improvisation: a content strategy
(03:42) Building blocks & two-five-one progressions
(04:35) How to make content easily digestible
(04:53) The @theo ratio backstory
(06:46) @sethsetse viral quote-tweet
(07:17) Emergency pods vs. weekly episodes
(07:22) Emergency Pod #1: @bchesky's bench press
(09:42) Where to find @mots_pod
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Where to find Jayden Clark:
X: @creatine_cycle
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jayden-clark-75991a1aa
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Where to find MOTS Podcast:
X: @mots_pod
YouTube: @motspod
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/mots-pod

Where to find Atlas Media Labs:
Website: atlasmedialabs.com
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Where to find David Phillips:
‍X: https://x.com/davj
‍LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davjphillips
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