Strategy
Definition
A cohesive response to a significant challenge, composed of a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent actions.
From the Archives
“strategy is the philosophy and excitement of thinking about all the long-term stuff that will happen, but I try to always come back to, what's going to change for the customer?”
Keywords: strategy, strategic, strategies
The Core Insight
Evidence from the Corpus
“Then, in the context of just our subscription strategy, games is such an important category for us.”
— Alex Hardimen
“(00:39:03): And I think one of the things that you learn is if you have great strategy, perfect strategy but poor execution, you don't win because your strategy never makes it to the market.”
— Ami Vora
Episodes
Strategy appears in 277 episodes, representing 91% of the corpus. Below are the most popular episodes featuring this concept.
Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky’s new playbook
1:13:28
Dalton Caldwell
Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dal...
1:20:53
Shreyas Doshi
The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)
1:31:22
Shreyas Doshi Live
The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)
1:31:22
Marty Cagan
Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
1:25:15
Ray Cao
Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
1:25:15
Elizabeth Stone
How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)
1:13:44
Kevin Weil
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbook...
1:31:41
Dylan Field
Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups |...
1:26:50
Nick Turley
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
1:35:38
Jeffrey Pfeffer
The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey...
1:22:31
Vikrama Dhiman
A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)
1:12:19
Gustaf Alstromer
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Air...
1:25:36
Michael Truell
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Mich...
1:11:14
Roger Martin
5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, adviso...
1:22:03
Mike Krieger
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
1:06:22
Ethan Smith
The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan ...
1:11:56
Richard Rumelt
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt
1:49:17
Tobi Lutke
Tobi Lütke's leadership playbook: First principles, infinite games, and maximizi...
1:41:43
Elena Verna
10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, Surve...
1:35:10