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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

2016 was a year when the product management community grew significantly and continued to mature. Here’s a look at what we learned in 2016 based on our most read posts during the year. Several of our most read posts of 2016 are practical guides, full of advice and the hard-won experiences of product experts: . Scope of the job.

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

Andrew Chen

Podcast listeners are not your typical American: they’re affluent, highly educated, and skew male. 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.

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

Andrew Chen

Podcast listeners are not your typical American: they’re affluent, highly educated, and skew male. 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.