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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
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Discord's Strategy To Build Communities Users Never Want to Leave
While competitors chase algorithms, Discord has quietly built gaming’s community infrastructure that over 200 million people call home
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Linear’s Unconventional Strategy to Win By Defying Everything Silicon Valley Stands For
How Linear turned craft over metrics, quality over features, and paid interviews into a $1.25 billion valuation
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Justin Welsh's Breakthrough Solopreneur Strategy That Built a $10 Million Business From a Near-Death Experience
How a startup breakdown led Justin Welsh to crack the creator strategy, build an audience, and create sustainable solopreneur competitive advantage
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May 2025

The Product Strategy Notion Uses to Hide The Next Software Revolution Inside A Productivity App
How a near-bankrupt startup disguised the future of software development in a simple note-taking app and created a new class of millionaire…
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How Figma's Strategy Weaponizes Design to Be Your Business's Secret Advantage
Reverse-engineering Figma’s transformation into the command center empowering design-led companies to crush siloed competitors
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The Platform Rewriting Digital Media's Playbook To Reboot The Creator Economy
How Substack's writer- and reader-first strategy empowers creators like Lenny Rachitsky to outperform legacy media stars
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The Strategy Perplexity Exploited to Expose Google’s Gap And Revolutionize Search In The Age Of AI
How a startup worth 1% of Google's value challenged the search giant's dominance and changed the face of search forever
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April 2025

The Human-Machine Writing Strategy for Content That Converts
Learn the approach that ups your writing game while gaining maximum impact with your target audience
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The Product Strategy Powering The Last Piece of Software You'll Ever Need
Reverse-engineering Lovable.dev's strategic choices in its quest to remove the final barrier to startup success
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Why The World's Leading Strategist Says Data Is Killing Your Product's Future
Roger L. Martin, the strategic architect who reshaped iconic products like LEGO and Chevy Malibu, shares the missing keys to product innovation
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March 2025

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