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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). Leisa tweets at @leisa and occasionally blogs at disambiguity.com. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through to its NASDAQ IPO.

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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.