Brian Balfour
Founder and CEO of Reforge, the product and growth education company; formerly vice president of growth at HubSpot.
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Product/market fit is only one of four fits a company needs to reach $100 million at venture speed.
Their wordsEveryone knows about Product Market Fit. And while it is one of the Four Fits, it’s only one of them.
↗The Four Fits: A Growth Framework for the AI Erablog.brianbalfour.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsProduct Channel Fit recognizes that products must be built for the channels where customers discover them (channels do not mold to products).
↗The Four Fits: A Growth Framework for the AI Erablog.brianbalfour.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAI increases both the problem space and the solution space.
↗The Four Fits: A Growth Framework for the AI Erablog.brianbalfour.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut there's a glaring problem—this technology shift has come without a distribution shift. In fact, AI is actively destroying the distribution channels we've relied on for decades.
↗The Next Great Distribution Shiftblog.brianbalfour.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe next great distribution shift is coming, and it's going to reshape how products find users just as dramatically as search engines and app stores did before it.
↗The Next Great Distribution Shiftblog.brianbalfour.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsEvery major new platform follows the same playbook: They start open and generous, practically begging developers to build on their platform.
↗The Next Great Distribution Shiftblog.brianbalfour.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsin a lot of ways I think the ecosystem is underestimating not overestimating the impact it will have over the next decade.
↗AI Native Product Teams: How They Will Think, Work, and Build Differentlyblog.brianbalfour.com