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Granola's Revolutionary AI Strategy That Crushes Meeting Bots In Crucial Conversations
The strategic framework that transformed meeting bots' fatal flaw into a defensible $250M moat
Sep 14
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Mike Goitein
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How Gamma Pivoted To Build A New $50M AI Strategic Moat And Crush Better-Funded AI-Native Startups
The counterintuitive strategy choices that let 40 employees build competitive advantages over billion-dollar competitors
Sep 4
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Mike Goitein
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August 2025
How Otter's AI Product Strategy Dominates By Creating Unexpected Value And A Totally New Organizational Asset Class
The strategic power of permissionless value creation and focus to build deeper moats than any technical feature alone ever could
Aug 25
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Mike Goitein
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A Complete Guide To Reverse-Engineering Strategy
Every product already has a strategy. Even yours. The question isn't whether you have one. It's about seeing what it actually is and making better…
Published on The Product Compass
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Aug 19
The Platform Strategy Slack Used To Quietly Become the Nervous System of Modern Work
How a failed video game accidentally turned better work chat into an irreplaceable $27 billion workplace collaboration ecosystem
Aug 6
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Mike Goitein
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July 2025
How Tim Denning Uses Vulnerability As A Strategy To Out-Earn "Perfect" Influencers
While Denning wins by sharing his struggles and failures, don't make the mistake of copying him without understanding what really drives his success
Jul 28
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Mike Goitein
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I Wasted 600 Days Chasing The Wrong Kind Of Growth. Here's What I Learned.
Why focusing on the wrong metrics nearly killed my business
Published on The Indiepreneur
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Jul 22
Why Revolut's Financial Super App Creates An Existential Crisis For Traditional Banks
Revolut's strategy reveals why specialized financial services are giving way to integrated operating systems
Jul 20
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Mike Goitein
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5 Unique Ways Claude Helps Tech Leaders Supercharge Their Writing
Writing is your most underutilized leadership tool… Claude helps you supercharge it
Published on Leadership in Change
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Jul 17
How Shopify's AI-First Mandate Turbocharges Its Already Unbeatable eCommerce Strategy
While competitors bolt on AI features, Shopify uses AI to eliminate entire categories of work, creating speed advantages that compound faster than…
Jul 11
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Mike Goitein
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The "LEGO Brick" Revolution That's Killing Traditional Platform Strategies
How Notion & Discord's component-based "building block" approach creates billion-dollar platforms users can't leave
Jul 7
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Mike Goitein
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June 2025
Why Fast Feature Shipping Is Slowly Killing Your Product
How Linear turned a radical bet that polishing beats the feature factory into a billion-dollar+ advantage
Jun 29
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Mike Goitein
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