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January 27, 2022

Your step-by-step guide to a winning product strategy

Former Netflix VP of Product Gibson Biddle explains how to build a product that delights, makes money, and beats the competition.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
4 mins
For students
Product
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November 6, 2023

How to make your competitors look bad without even mentioning them

Laddering (as defined by Scott Galloway) means highlighting your strengths in a way that inherently points out your competitor’s weaknesses. We’ll explain how to use laddering to deposition your competitors, using Writer, one of our favorite AI case studies right now.

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Greg Shove
Taylor Malmsheimer, Head of Strategy
5 mins
For students
Brand strategy
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June 7, 2023

Why did HBO Max rebrand to Max? 4 insights

The internet responded to the HBO Max rebrand with an overwhelming, "Why?" So we dug in to find out the strategy behind their confusing move.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
2 mins
For students
HBO Max
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June 7, 2023

How Cascade took on its biggest competitor: the sink 

Want to attack your real competition instead of the company down the road no one knows about? Learn how Cascade depositioned their number one competitor: the sink.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
4 mins
For students
positioning
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May 24, 2025

SMB leaders have an AI adoption problem

In public, they’re touting AI proficiency. In private, they’re not sure what generative AI even is.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For companies
AI
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May 16, 2025

How to use AI microapps without compromising security

AI can now code you a custom ready-to-deploy application in sub-10 minutes, just by prompting it. Machine & Partners’ Edmundo Ortega walked us through the huge opportunity of these microapps – and the huge risks.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
6 mins
For companies
AI

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