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Unleashing Predictive Power| Eric Siegel

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It’s the last remaining point of differentiation for improving large scale operations. Second edition 2016. Fortune 500 stakeholders involved in touch on or somehow having stakes in the deployment, where there’s large scale operations that can be improved in machine learning. Now, prediction is extremely valuable.

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This is understandable--most leaders operate under financial constraints, and grasping the ROI of a given initiative helps to ensure that their capital is being put to its best use. Sleep-Deprived Leaders are Less Inspiring (Christopher Barnes, Harvard Business Review , 2016). [7] 7] How to Scale: Do Less, Lead More. [8]

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The Adjacent User Theory

Andrew Chen

When I joined Instagram in 2016, the product had over 400 million users, but the growth rate had slowed. Solving for the Adjacent User through growth and scaling work helps your product realize its true product-market fit potential. We were growing linearly, not exponentially. Those are your Adjacent Users.

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The Adjacent User Theory

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When I joined Instagram in 2016, the product had over 400 million users, but the growth rate had slowed. Solving for the Adjacent User through growth and scaling work helps your product realize its true product-market fit potential. We were growing linearly, not exponentially. Those are your Adjacent Users.

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

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As new tech platforms hit scale, we on the consumer team have been closely watching the future of media and the technology driving it — in all forms. New devices made it easier to listen: Alexa launched in 2015, Google Home and AirPods in 2016. There are now over 700K free podcasts available and thousands more launching each week.