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Category Designer Spotlight: Bianca Valenti - Women's Big Wave Surfing

Bianca Valenti is a game changer. Her unique vision and dedication has led to designing her category : Women’s Big Wave Surfing, one of the world’s most dangerous sports. Her..

Category Design with Phenom People : Talent Experience Management

At our Category Design Executive Summit on Tuesday, Jonathon Dale, VP of Marketing for Phenom People discussed his experience from the early stages of category design, all the way..

Category Design With Dropbox

Lin is a talented category designer and during her talk she illustrated how much fun it was to work with Play Bigger. She detailed their latest Lightning Strike for the #Dropbox..

What does it take to become a potential category designer?

Bryan Schreier, Venture Capitalist and Partner at Sequoia Capital, spoke with our Surf Ranch panel and guests. He addressed how investors value category designers:

Category Design: It's Not Complicated, Just Hard

Naomi Allen, CEO and Co-Founder of Emilio Health is a seasoned operational leader in healthcare and is a frequent speaker on digital health and early-stage innovation. Being..

Tesla's electric vehicle is the Chrysler minivan of the future

Tesla just gave away all its patents – and it’s a genius move. The electric carmaker has been in danger of becoming a pioneering company in a small niche of the automobile market...

Beyond Users Podcast: Creating a Dominant Product

Dave Peterson is a co-Founder and Partner at Play Bigger, a consulting firm that coined the term category design and is advising companies on how to create and own new categories..

Facebook is more proof innovation is thriving in Silicon Valley

Recently some of the digerati have bemoaned Facebook’s rise as the end of Silicon Valley. The argument goes that because social media companies don’t make computer chips or cancer..

Notion Capital Podcast: Category Thinking with Dave Peterson

By their very nature, most tech businesses are solving a problem customers may not they know they have, or developing a solution the customer doesn’t know they need.

PLAY BIGGER: Bianca Valenti WINS the Puerto Escondido Cup

The Puerto Escondido Cup was quite a big wave event. According to contest organizer Gary Linden, "It was the best women’s big wave surfing event he’d seen and that many of the..

Insight Venture Partners: The Science of Category Design w/Play Bigger

This category design webinar will walk through the science of category design, the foundational building blocks of how to define and develop a category, and provide many case..

IAMPHENOM Conference Keynote: How HR can Play Bigger

Watch Dave Peterson, co-author of PlayBigger, speak at the 1st Annual IAMPHENOM Conference on how HR can Play BIgger.