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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Organise around customers. Ways to improve the user experience was as big a theme in 2016 as ever and in The Experience is the Product , another talk from the San Francisco conference, Peter Merholz spoke about the need to focus on the user experience. But nothing beats partnership for synergy and unexpected brilliance”.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

.” Here’s how I define each side: There are usually a minority of users that will create disproportionate value and as a result, they will have disproportionate power. For social networks, these are often the content creators that generate the media everyone consumes. It’s a form of entertainment.[^1].

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. Without further adieu, here’s the a16z consumer team’s definitive analysis of the podcast ecosystem in 2019. Thanks, Andrew.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. Without further adieu, here’s the a16z consumer team’s definitive analysis of the podcast ecosystem in 2019.