Skip to content

Category Design News: PLAY BIGGER

Good Ideas are Killing Start-ups.

Why? Because most start-ups aren’t solving new problems, they’re just offering a better, cheaper, faster way of solving the same problem as their competition...

Strike Cadence

Once you have your first strike down, you’ll start to feel the team shift from the anxiety and uncertainty of doing something new – which usually involves creating a lot of new..

What problem is Category Design solving?

Too many good companies with good products fail to make a dent in the universe — because they can’t find their place in the universe. Too many companies essentially stick a pole..

Category Design Legends: The Chief Market Officer

Jennifer “JJ” Johnson is a three-time #CMO and Category Designer. JJ is best known for her recent work designing the Cyber Exposure Category for Tenable Security , which also..

Category Designer Spotlight: Kai Lenny

Kai is so awesome. When he was a kid growing up on Maui, he had his own set of real life Superheroes to look up to - legendary watermen like @lairdhamiltonsurf and @darrickd -..

Building Asia Pacific and Australia Category Kings

A CMO's Guide to Sticking the Category Design Landing Jennifer Johnson, the newly appointed CMO of Tenable (congrats again JJ!) shares her insights, strategy, and reality of how..

The biggest mistake politicians ever made

Republican presidential hopefuls have been bashing each other ahead of today's primary fight in Michigan. Here's how companies do the same thing — without hurting themselves.

The Inconvenient Truth About Global Category Kings

It's an extraordinary time in Southeast Asia for business and technology innovation. With the tailwinds of a seismic increase in venture capital investments over the last 5 years,..

Why People Want to Work For Category Kings - They Really, Really Do!

Turns out, that Category Kings make up 7 of the top 7 on the list! Think about that for a second. This shows the power of why it's so important to build a great company, product..

2 New CD's and APAC Launch

Joining Play Bigger as a Category Designer in Residence (CDIR) is Naomi Allen. We first met Naomi when she was one of the founding members of Castlight Health. She is one of the..