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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

In the past twenty years, we’ve transformed the way people buy goods online, and in the process created Amazon, eBay, JD.com, Alibaba, and other e-commerce giants, accounting for trillions of dollars in market capitalization. It’s a huge leap in terms of user experience over Craigslist’s Childcare section.

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

Andrew Chen

New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016. Spotify — which has made a big push into podcasts in just the past couple years — now accounts for almost 10% of listening. We estimate that Apple Podcasts has 27M monthly active users in the U.S., Rich variety of content.

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

Andrew Chen

New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016. Spotify — which has made a big push into podcasts in just the past couple years — now accounts for almost 10% of listening. We estimate that Apple Podcasts has 27M monthly active users in the U.S., Rich variety of content.