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ChatGPT Is Becoming the Interface
Sam Altman outlines how OpenAI plans to turn ChatGPT into the internet’s next interface, powered by apps, commerce, and global infrastructure growth.
Product Strategy Archive
46 posts about product strategy.
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OpenAI’s App Store Moment and the Future of Product Boundaries
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT app store redefines how users interact with products — shifting from interfaces to intent.
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From Competitive Moats to Collaborative Bridges
In the AI era, the strongest products don’t build walls — they build bridges. Here’s why connectivity, not isolation, defines modern defensibility.
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The Feedback Loop Fallacy in AI Products
AI feedback loops can lie. Learn why engagement metrics fail and how product managers can rebuild truth-centered measurement systems.
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Platform Products Need to Earn Their Keep
Platform products need empathy and accountability. Treat them like external products — measure impact, earn trust, and prove real value.
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The Shift from SEO to AEO Is Redefining Visibility Online
The rise of answer engine optimization (AEO) marks a shift from SEO. Visibility in AI-driven answers is now the key to discovery.
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Sora 2 Changes the Video Play
Sora 2 pushes AI video into mainstream use. Here’s what it enables now, who gets disrupted, and why B2B teams should pay attention.
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AI Platforms as the New Distribution Layer
OpenAI’s Instant Checkout turns ChatGPT into a commerce channel. Here’s what product managers need to know about AI-native distribution.
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Rethinking Product, Market, Channel, and Model for AI Era
How Brian Balfour’s Four Fits framework has been updated for the AI era, and what product leaders can learn from the shift.
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From Architect to Gardner to Orchestrator: The AI-era Product Leader
How AI transforms product leadership from building to conducting. The rise of the Orchestrator mindset in product management.
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From Product-Led to Product-Agentic Growth in B2B
Product-Agentic Growth reframes how B2B software must evolve: AI agents doing work for users, reshaping PLG with autonomous workflows, predictive expansion, and real ROI.
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The Massive AI Opportunity Hiding on Your Home Screen
Most 'AI products' aren't AI-native. Use the Home Screen Test to spot the billion-dollar opportunities hiding in plain sight.
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Platform vs Product: The AI Era Convergence
AI is collapsing the line between platforms and products. The winners will master both, balancing ecosystems and user experiences.
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Atlassian's Browser Move
Atlassian’s $610M bet on The Browser Company is bold. Here’s why it makes sense, and the big risks that could derail it.
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AEO is the New SEO?
A quick look at Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), why it matters for both consumers and businesses, and how it differs from SEO.
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Apple’s Sugar Water Trap
Apple’s iPhone 17 shows the sugar water trap risk as AI reshapes tech. A lesson for product managers on balancing incremental progress with bold bets.
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GTM Playbook for Feature Products in the Platform and AI Era
A GTM playbook for feature products competing with platforms in the AI era, focused on delight, speed, and switching costs before the bundle arrives.
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APIs are the Strategic Foundation for Agentic AI and Beyond
APIs are not small. They are the backbone of digital growth and the foundation of agentic AI and MCP orchestration.
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The Token Squeeze is Real
AI isn’t getting cheaper. Token demand is exploding, and flat-rate subscriptions are doomed. What pricing models can survive the squeeze?
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When AI Bots Rule the Web
AI crawlers dominate web traffic, but most don’t send users back. Here’s what product managers need to know about training bots, referrals, and strategy.
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Nano Banana and the Future of AI Image Editing
Google’s Nano Banana is redefining AI image editing. Here’s what it means for creativity, platforms, and trust in the digital age.
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What Makes a Real Data Moat
Data moats are the key to AI defensibility. Tesla and Stripe show what makes them real and how product teams can build them.
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Agentic Browsers Meet Their Hardest Test: Security
Agentic browsers face significant security risks, such as prompt injection, but early defenses demonstrate why security will be the true differentiator.
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The Big Squeeze in B2B and the Challenge of Lasting Defensibility
In B2B, escape velocity isn’t enough. Startups must turn rapid distribution into lasting defensibility before incumbents close the window.
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Agentic AI Needs APIs to Act
Agentic AI can reason, but it needs APIs to act. APIs are the execution layer that makes AI autonomy real.
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Why Customer Success Belongs at the Start of Product Strategy
Shift-left Customer Success by embedding it early in product strategy, design, and GTM to boost retention and drive SaaS growth.
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Build, Buy, or AI-Build
Vibe-coding opens a new AI-build path, but Marty Cagan’s point on business rules shows its limits. Can AI ever capture this hidden and complex logic?
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Vibe-Coding Is Early But Already Changing SaaS
Vibe-coding is still early, but already empowers non-technical builders while pressuring SaaS vendors to deliver leverage beyond features.
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How Product Leaders Can Adapt and Thrive in the AI Era
Practical playbooks for product leaders to adapt and thrive in the AI era using wedge expansion, jobs-to-be-done, and dual transformation.
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The Informal Committees Behind B2B Buying
B2B buying isn’t decided by end users alone. Informal committees shape decisions, and product managers must map their jobs-to-be-done.
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Why Startups Struggle and Giants Stall in the AI Era
Why AI disruption challenges startups and giants while firms with product market fit adapt faster, explained through proven strategy frameworks.
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Making Product Decisions with a Bets Mindset
How leading product teams use betting principles to make smarter decisions, test ideas fast, and adapt quickly to real-world results.
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Start with Product and Target for Effective Distribution, Not Channel
Learn why smart product managers match channels to product and target, not trends, with a simple hospital software example.
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AI Risks to SaaS Companies
Generative + Agentic AI is accelerating feature commoditization; read the room and adapt.
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The Power of an Anchor - Warby Parker's Pricing Strategy
Warby Parker's playbook for product managers. Learn how the company uses pricing strategy, vertical integration, and innovation to grow.
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When AI Becomes Your Medical Translator
How AI LLMs are transforming healthcare by empowering patients with PhD-level medical knowledge and reshaping the entire industry ecosystem.
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The Winner's Curse: Rhyming History in the AI Era
Why AI disruption differs from past paradigm shifts: faster cycles, probabilistic computing, and why today's tech winners face an accelerating curse.
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Architect vs. Gardner: Product Development Mindsets
Product leaders must know when to act as Architects and when to act as Gardeners. Learn how to balance precision and adaptability in product development.
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How to Make OKRs Work
Practical tips to make OKRs work: writing strong objectives, measurable key results, and avoiding common pitfalls in execution.
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Love the Problem, Solution will Follow
Fall in love with the problem, not the solution. Learn seven techniques to uncover customer needs and build products that create lasting impact.