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

Andrew Chen

And the men got more replies too, so that it didn’t feel like it was devolving into a copy-paste messaging exercise. Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. This ensured women got fewer messages, and hopefully more of the right ones.

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

Andrew Chen

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. In the fitness category, Aaptiv, ClassPass Go, and MoveWith are examples of companies offering audio fitness classes across a variety of exercise types. Podcast production companies.

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

Andrew Chen

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. In the fitness category, Aaptiv, ClassPass Go, and MoveWith are examples of companies offering audio fitness classes across a variety of exercise types. Podcast production companies.