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Women Succeeding in the World of Product Management

Product Management Unpacked

In 2012, she became President and CEO of Yahoo, where she doubled the search engine’s stock price, recharged the brand, had a baby, and topped Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list in her first year. Today, she is the cofounder and CEO of Kit, a social recommendation platform where tastemakers share products they love.

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

Andrew Chen

It wasn’t until 2012, at the beginning of the explosion in mobile apps, that yet another generation of dating apps would emerge. I’ve seen the difficulty of managing the hard side for rideshare first-hand, where drivers are the ones selling their time and effort in the market. With that, the rideshare market was kicked off.

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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. And in fact, the combined revenue of Headspace and Calm are more than half of the entire podcasting market.

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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. And in fact, the combined revenue of Headspace and Calm are more than half of the entire podcasting market.