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

Andrew Chen

It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. This ensured women got fewer messages, and hopefully more of the right ones. It’s a form of entertainment.[^1]. This all created trust.

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

Andrew Chen

You can follow and message Li on Twitter if you have thoughts about the piece. NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. See below for a long-form analysis everything we’ve observed in the podcasting industry. Vertical consumer audio apps.