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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. He also led product management at social networking pioneer Friendster, and was the cofounder and CEO of YourVersion, a TechCrunch award-winning personalized news startup.

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

Andrew Chen

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. For Uber, in any given market, so-called “Power Drivers” constitute 20% of the supply but create 60% of the trips. With that, the rideshare market was kicked off.

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How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?

ProductPlan

Instead, product managers come from many walks of life, including engineering, marketing, project management, or something completely unrelated. CEOs are responsible for strategy, finance, sales, marketing, growth, customer satisfaction, and more. The product management role entails such a wide range of skills and expertise.

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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.