AI
When AI Agents Replace the Comparison Step
AI agents are absorbing the comparison step marketplaces were built on. Search and financial data from edtech, automotive, and solar show a consistent pattern.
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growth
The Paid Acquisition Trap: Where Marketplace Growth Goes to Die
Airbnb, DoorDash, Etsy, Upwork, and Angi reveal a consistent pattern: high sales and marketing spend does not predict growth. This study shows what the paid acquisition trap looks like in the data, what escaping it requires, and how to diagnose whether you are in it.
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product
Product Strategy: What It Is and How to Build One That Holds
Product strategy is a set of choices about where to compete and what not to do. Most fail because they avoid making real choices. Here's what it actually looks
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marketplaces
How I use AI to diagnose marketplace liquidity
Marketplace liquidity is the odds a listing finds a match. Measure it per side, find the starved one, then stop buying traffic that was never your constraint.
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Product Management
The Chief Product Officer Role Changes Every Time the Company Doubles
I have been the product exec at more than a dozen companies. The CPO title never changed. The actual job got replaced roughly every time we doubled.
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AI
The AI Tools for Product Managers I Pay For, and the Ones I Keep Cancelling
My whole operation runs on one Claude plan: 10 agents, 34 skills, 17 scheduled jobs. Almost every other AI tool I bought this year, I cancelled.
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