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This is a Category Design Nursery

Something incredible actually: Category Champions are born. Almost half of the category dominating companies we’ve been tracking at Play Bigger for the last 20+ years, were..

Play Bigger by Becoming a Category Champ

One of the best management books I’ve read in years is easily Play Bigger by four marketing experts. Al Ramadan and his co-authors did not invent the term category design, a..

Airtable Unveils Connected Apps Platform Category at First User Event

“I’m not a developer. I’m not a designer.“ A generic statement that could be uttered by a majority of people in the workforce today, but in the context of what Olivia-Diane Joseph..

A Lightning Strike in the Age of Disconnection

Doesn't she look excited? Here's Ashli on day 1 taking a selfie (2 hours early so she could grab a seat in the front row) before watching Hubspot CEO Yamini Rangan on the big..

Follow Your Different Podcast // Episode 285

On this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different, our Founder/CEO Al Ramadan talks about what’s at stake when it comes to category battles, how to spot category..

The Category Contenders

We released our book, Play Bigger : How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets (Harper Business) in 2016, identifying this phenomenon called Category Kings...

Airtable voted #1 on the 2022 Enterprise Tech 30 List!

The Enterprise Tech 30 presented by Wing Venture Capital names private companies in Enterprise Technology with the most potential to meaningfully shift how tech companies operate..

Happy International Women’s Week!

We’re so proud to support our two female Surf Ambassadors, Bianca Valenti and Keanna Miller! ⚡️ @bigwavebianca continues to pave the way in the discipline of female big wave..

Play Bigger, One Year Later...

As much as we believed in our predictions, none of us could have imagined how pivotal and transformational 2021 would become. It was a record breaking year for us and we are..