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Shaun Clowes

this was actually developed originally in the our retention program with Casey Winters and Sean Klaus

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Innovation3 steps

Context Over Models: The Data-Management Bet

AI products win on getting good, timely, well-structured data to the model — not on the model itself

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Productivity3 steps

Data Is a Compass, Not a GPS

Data disproves the ridiculous — it rarely hands you the answer, so validate findings before you trust them

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Sales3 steps

Dual-Motion Growth: PLG and Sales That Feed Each Other

Win by having both many customers and lots of revenue — with PLG and sales feeding each other

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Innovation3 steps

LLM as Disconfirmation Engine

Point the model at where your strategy does NOT fit — and reverse-engineer competitors from their public docs

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Strategy3 steps

Meet the Bar and Be Different

Incumbents overshoot average utility — win by meeting the bar while being materially different

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Productivity3 steps

Outside-the-Building Product Management

Spend 80% of your time thinking outside the building and argue every case from the market's point of view

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Strategy3 steps

Seek the Counterfactual, Not Confirmation

The competitive edge lives in the data you're trying to prove yourself wrong with, not the data you hoped to see

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Strategy3 steps

The Business-Rules Moat: Why 'Forms on Databases' Are Unclonable

B2B SaaS lock-in isn't the UI or data model — it's years of accreted, configured business rules

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Self-Mastery3 steps

The Career Bingo Card

Deliberately take adjacent-but-different roles to fill in squares and become 'scribble-shaped'

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Productivity3 steps

The Nielsen Number: Right-Size Your Research

Interview 7-14 people — fewer teaches too little, more teaches nothing new

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