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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). He also led product management at social networking pioneer Friendster, and was the cofounder and CEO of YourVersion, a TechCrunch award-winning personalized news startup. Tom Coates, Co-Founder of Thington.

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

Andrew Chen

New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016. NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. In the past 5 years, there’s been an explosion of listening behavior and innovative content.

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

Andrew Chen

New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016. NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. In the past 5 years, there’s been an explosion of listening behavior and innovative content.