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Mentioned in 35 episodes
Play Bigger
Pirates, Dreamers, and the Power of Decisive Action
Book • 2018
Play Bigger, co-authored by Christopher Lochhead and several others, provides a framework for businesses to dominate their markets by creating new categories.
The book emphasizes the importance of defining a unique market space, crafting a compelling narrative, and building a strong brand identity.
It offers practical strategies for businesses to differentiate themselves from competitors and establish themselves as category leaders.
The book's insights on category design, brand building, and market leadership have made it a valuable resource for entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Its practical advice and real-world examples make it accessible and applicable to a wide range of businesses.
The book emphasizes the importance of defining a unique market space, crafting a compelling narrative, and building a strong brand identity.
It offers practical strategies for businesses to differentiate themselves from competitors and establish themselves as category leaders.
The book's insights on category design, brand building, and market leadership have made it a valuable resource for entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Its practical advice and real-world examples make it accessible and applicable to a wide range of businesses.
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Mentioned in 35 episodes
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as a great modern strategy book.

Jag Duggal

634 snips
Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google, Quantcast)
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as one of 

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Lenny Rachitsky


Christopher Lochhead

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How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, Category Pirates, more)
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as a book that teaches the concept of being a category king.


Russell Brunson

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Category King: Crafting Your Category & Selling A Grand-Slam Offer
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as a great book about category design and how market winners accumulate value.


Tom Hale

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EP 129: Tom Hale (CEO, Oura) Shares Health Habits That Will Make You a Better Leader
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as the bible on category creation and startups.


Doug Camplejohn

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GTM 154: How AI is Reshaping Sales Tech | Lessons from Building Sales Cloud, Sales Navigator and now an AI-Native Startup
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as a book that changed his life and business, discussing the idea of saying different things.

Tom Schwab

56 snips
416 The Rise of the Creator Capitalist with Christopher Lochhead | The Podcast Interview Marketing Show
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as a book to read on the topic if you have time to read one book on category design.

Kyle Coleman

53 snips
E48: Work Sprawl and the Future of Marketing with Global VP Marketing @ ClickUp, Kyle Coleman
Mentioned as the raw founder-first manifesto that names the invisible force killing great companies.

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404 Is Agentic AI the End of SaaS as We Know It? | DisrupTV
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as their earlier influential book that launched the category design movement.


Kevin Maney


Christopher Lochhead

52 snips
425 The Category Creation Formula: Why Most Business Strategy is a Trap with Kevin Maney & Mike Damphousse
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as a book about category creation relevant to articulating problems for markets.


Jordan Gal

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Episode 824 | Crowded Markets, Problem Aware, A Stolen Idea, and More Listener Questions (with Jordan Gal)



