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Writing a Book As an Extension of Your Business | Becky Robinson

Peter Winick

Our conversation begins with the difficult topic of measuring the ROI of a business book. Back in about it was 2014 or 2015. Peter Winick Well, and stay there for a minute, because this is one of the pressures that I have around publishing, is that, listen, a publisher’s success metric is really, really simple.

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

Andrew Chen

In 2014, the first season of Serial aired, considered to be the first breakout podcast, with its narrative audio journalism drawing in 5M downloads in the first month. The release of this app is widely considered an inflection point for the industry, as it put podcasts a single tap away for hundreds of millions of users around the world.

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

Andrew Chen

In 2014, the first season of Serial aired, considered to be the first breakout podcast, with its narrative audio journalism drawing in 5M downloads in the first month. The release of this app is widely considered an inflection point for the industry, as it put podcasts a single tap away for hundreds of millions of users around the world.