category creation

4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 27, 2022 by Barbra Gago · across every show →

Everything said about category creation, oldest first

Oct 27, 2022 neutral
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Category creators must educate enterprise buyers to allocate entirely new budget lines
“When you're generating a new category, you're also needing to educate buyers that there is a category that they can now budget for and why they should allocate budget for that.”
Barbra Gago Oct 27, 2022 ▶ 23:47 Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp)
Oct 27, 2022 positive
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Elevating the perceived value of an existing category can beat creating one
“Instead of spending the time and money to build a new category, we were going to spend the time and money to elevate the value of this category. So rather than changing the category to something else, which we could value at whatever it was, We were just going…”
Barbra Gago Oct 27, 2022 ▶ 15:49 Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp)
May 28, 2023 negative
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Raskin: Inventing a category label alone will not differentiate a company
“When people think about category creation, they tend to just focus on like, okay, what is this category name going to be that we got? What are these three words that are, or two words, whatever, that are going to sort of magically make us seem like we're total…”
Andy Raskin May 28, 2023 ▶ 41:36 The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin
Apr 11, 2024 positive
Insight
Jackson: Repositioning within existing categories is easier than category creation
“I think it's hard to create a category. Like it certainly works in some cases, but if you actually have like a really interesting spin on an existing category, like there's people are, there's already buyers spending money on that thing. They're already lookin…”
Todd Jackson Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 48:57 A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)
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