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How Granola Grows
Dissecting the 10% Weekly Growth of Every VCs Favorite Notetaking App and how Granola grew by being... invisible.
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Adam Fishman
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How AI Products Drive Adoption: The Template Activation Loop
Analysis of activation patterns across 25+ AI products: ChatGPT, Cohere, Bolt, Lovable, Clay, Jasper, Gamma, Harvey, Canva, HeyGen, Suno and more.
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Adam Fishman
How Perplexity Grows
Dissecting Perplexity’s growth strategy and tactics in Acquisition and Retention.
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Adam Fishman
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Balancing Engineering Cultures: Debate Everything vs. Just Tell Me What To Build
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Finding Your Company’s Next Growth Opportunity
 • Ross Nazarenko
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WTF is Strategy?
 • Adam Fishman
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Mastering Product Discovery - Quantitative Discovery
 • Adam Fishman and Behzod Sirjani
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When Branding is a Growth Strategy (Part 1)
 • Adam Fishman
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Which Type of Product Manager Are You?
 • Adam Fishman
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Introducing My AI Profile: Get Growth and Product Advice From Me
Kick the tires on my new FishmanAF SuperMe profile and let me know what you think!
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Adam Fishman
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Stop Messing Up Your Growth Leader Hiring
Why so many founders get this wrong and what to do about it
 • 
Adam Fishman
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The Tension of Early Product Communication
How and when to bring people along at your company with a framework for stage-based communication
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Adam Fishman
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The "Best Of" The FishmanAF Newsletter
An collection of 3 years worth of articles organized by topic, insight and job to be done
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Adam Fishman
Growing Revenue at a Pumpkin Patch (Part 2)
The Growth strategies that helped us achieve record-breaking revenue and profitability in 2024.
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Adam Fishman
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Leveraging Opinionated Defaults to Power Growth
What it means to use “opinionated defaults,” successful examples from Patreon, AirBnB, Box, Canva, GoFundMe, Perplexity, Lyft, and Yelp, and a framework…
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Adam Fishman
How To Do Things That Don’t Scale
Examples of taking multiple products from zero to one and beyond
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Adam Fishman
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