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WTF: Atlassian Acquires The Browser Co?!?
So many takes on this acquisition so let's break it down constructively...
Sep 5
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Leverage AI To Build Zero-to-One
And how to build a Custom GPT to help you build and measure progress!
Sep 2
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August 2025
How to Win With AI Video Ads
Advice from one of today’s greatest paid advertising experts who has worked with Shopify, Coinbase, Character.ai, Pinterest, Lyft and more.
Aug 5
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July 2025
How Granola Grows
Dissecting the 10% Weekly Growth of Every VCs Favorite Notetaking App and how Granola grew by being... invisible.
Jul 1
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Adam Fishman
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June 2025
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.
Jun 10
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Adam Fishman
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May 2025
How Perplexity Grows
Dissecting Perplexity’s growth strategy and tactics in Acquisition and Retention.
May 13
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Adam Fishman
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April 2025
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!
Apr 29
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Adam Fishman
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March 2025
Stop Messing Up Your Growth Leader Hiring
Why so many founders get this wrong and what to do about it
Mar 26
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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
Mar 18
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Adam Fishman
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December 2024
The "Best Of" The FishmanAF Newsletter
An collection of 3 years worth of articles organized by topic, insight and job to be done
Dec 17, 2024
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Adam Fishman
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October 2024
Growing Revenue at a Pumpkin Patch (Part 2)
The Growth strategies that helped us achieve record-breaking revenue and profitability in 2024.
Oct 31, 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…
Oct 8, 2024
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Adam Fishman
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