Product Strategy Decoded

AI Moves Fast, Strategy Moves First

Developing AI capabilities before the data exists to prove it

Dec 6 • 

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November 2025

How Magic Patterns Hit $1M ARR By Turning Away Most Of Their Potential Customers

The contrarian strategic choices two frontend engineers made to generate $500K ARR per employee and a $6M Series A

Nov 27 • 

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The Art and Science of Pivots – Livestream with VC Chris Tottman

When your customers tell you to pivot, this is how to listen and win

Nov 19 • 

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Chris Tottman

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How Gong Created a $7.25B Opportunity By Realizing Sales Software Optimized For The Wrong Person Entirely

Gong's valuation dwarfs competitors not because of technology but because of these effective strategic choices in the age of AI.

Nov 18 • 

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Video: How AI Strategy is Different

See how four companies reimagined their product strategies through systems-thinking-based AI approaches to crush rivals

Nov 14 • 

Mike Goitein

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Forget Building Moats. Here’s Your Real Key To Crushing The Competition With AI.

Optimizing yesterday's mental models won’t help you win tomorrow's entirely different game

Nov 9 • 

Mike Goitein

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How Vanta Weaponized The Enterprise Sales Blocker Every Startup Dreads

Christina Cacioppo's strategy to turn a cost center into a $4+ billion revenue engine

Nov 3 • 

Mike Goitein

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October 2025

Why AI Feature Battles Completely Miss the Real Competitive Advantage

Winners go beyond just adding AI to their products to completely reimagine their product strategies around capabilities AI is just now making possible

Oct 25 • 

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How N26 Weaponized Painful Market Exits And Costly Regulatory Failures To Become Europe's Only Profitable Digital Bank

The counterintuitive strategy choices that transformed regulatory punishment and market exits into a €9 billion competitive advantage

Oct 12 • 

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How Chime's "Revenue Model Revolt" Broke Every Banking Rule To Build The $25 Billion Anti-Bank Customers Love

Chime’s strategic choices that flip legacy banking’s business model, driving profit from customer wins instead of their misfortunes

Oct 6 • 

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September 2025

Reverse-engineer your rivals 🦊 The shortcut to market dominance

Beat the biggest player in your market by learning their moves first

Published on Millennial Masters • Sep 26

Why Your Company's Most Analytical Product Managers Are Secretly Costing You Millions in Lost Productivity & Revenue

How an inward-focused planning obsession leads to business failure by turning market leaders into risk-averse task managers who forget who their real…

Sep 23 • 

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