Christopher Lochhead

You can only be as big and successful as your market category.

No one cares about our product... You know what they care about? Them, their needs, their wants, their problems. And categories are about customers and their wants, needs, problems and opportunities.

New languaging creates new thinking, and a demarcation point in language creates a demarcation point in thinking, which can create a demarcation point in perceived value.

The company that creates the languaging for the category wins.

What most people do is forecasting... What's true is one company wins and everybody else gets fucked. That's what's true.

What positioning today has become is essentially how do I tell a story about my shit in a unique way... If you're doing positioning in that context, you just decided you're fighting for 24% of the demand designed by somebody else.

Spend more time on the problem than the solution.

You can actually design a market. And in so doing, you create a new distinction in value for people that didn't exist before.

The company that designs the space and gets it to tip at scale... gets a meaningful percentage of the world to agree with their definition of a problem set, which then leads to their definition of a solution set. The company that does that at any kind of scale, wins.

The category makes the product, the category makes the brand, the category makes the company.

Product market fit... Listen to the words, product, market, fit... What you want is you want to design a market category for your product, not fit your product into a market category.

Category designers compete against the status quo... The enemy is the status quo. That is to say the way it is now.