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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Suzie’s post both educates and entertains and is full of practical advice and, as Suzie says, its point is “to empower you and inform you about technical practices that are meant to be business-relevant”. This opens up and demystifies these practices with definitions, examples, easy to understand diagrams, and suggestions for further reading.

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

Andrew Chen

In tandem, ad spend has been growing steadily each year, from $69 to $220M in 2017 [ source ]. The New York Times wrote in 2016 that “the iTunes podcasting hub that Mr. Jobs introduced remains strikingly unchanged,” and beyond adding more analytics features in 2017, the same still holds true today. The app landscape.

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

Andrew Chen

In tandem, ad spend has been growing steadily each year, from $69 to $220M in 2017 [ source ]. The New York Times wrote in 2016 that “the iTunes podcasting hub that Mr. Jobs introduced remains strikingly unchanged,” and beyond adding more analytics features in 2017, the same still holds true today. The app landscape.