Top 10 in Tech - What to know for Week ending January 11, 2019

1. We always talk about achieving Product Market fit as a business. But what does that actually mean?  Andrew Chen from a16z breaks this down for us from a VC’s perspective (as a shareable PDF!).
2. What’s happening with Podcasts? 73 million Americans (that’s 26%) listen to podcasts on a monthly basis and podcast listenership  continues to grow amid declines in consumption of other premium ad environments. Business Insider reports on how brands and marketers can tap into the future of audio. 
3. Most SaaS companies don’t really have a repeatable/scalable engine at $100k in ARR. But usually by $1m ARR things are starting to settle and companies see some real measures and indicators of repeatability. Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr, breaks down monthly growth and burn rates of companies he invested in that reached $1m ARR as a comparison tool. 
4. Who are the top 100 VC’s of 2018. CB Insights provides their annual list.
5. Just where are SaaS companies priced after the 2018 Correction? Tomasz Tunguz takes a look at how forward multiples are prices for publicly traded SaaS companies after the market correction we saw earlier in 2018. It’s still well above the 8 year median of 5.2x.
6. As the SaaS industry is reaching maturity and over the past couple of years the app store model has becoming increasingly important with Salesforce, Zendesk, Hubspot, Shopify and Xero, among others, launching their own stores. Here is a lis of the top 50 SaaS Marketplaces.
7. Top 5 Fintech predictions for 2019 - by Business Insider.
8. Top Tech Trends of 2019 (podcast version also included). Michael K. Spencer begins with specialized AI chips, edge computing, and more….
9. Meet the Unicorn class of 2018. Unicorns are officially classed as privately held businesses with a valuation of over $1B USD. Sorry Xero and Push Pay, you don’t count as you are publicly traded, but this year ALL BIRDS made that list (and RocketLab did last year).
10. Mary Meekers new VC Firm will be called “Bond” and will also reportedly target about $1.25B for the debut fund. We have reported on Mary’s “Internet Trends Reports” for the past two years here and here.

POD OF THE WEEK: The Stay Tuned with Preet Episode The Science of Leadership with Adam Grant. While this is usually a very US focused political show (Preet Bharara is a former US Attorney General), Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and a professor at Wharton Business School and offers incredible insight on what makes great leaders within organizations.