Al RamadanAl RamadanFounder & CEO, Play Bigger · If you have ever been misunderstood.

Al Ramadan's videos and podcasts

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August 2026

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A very enjoyable collaboration with one of the most innovative outdoor apparel companies. Commentin...

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Missiles. Mass transit. AI's power crunch. An Update. Previously I posted about three category des...

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What I Was Really Chasing A while back, I wrote a post https://lnkd.in/gS7fcFkY about losing someth...

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June 2026

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The video opens on a sailor named Kraft. He's not in the keynote. He's in the 87 seconds that playe...

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It's not every day you get to watch someone name a problem that sits at the center of our national s...

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May 2026

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Thirty percent. That's how much of the American power grid is actually being used at any given mome...

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April 2026

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Lightning Strike Day for Zum The yellow school bus is an American icon. For nearly 200 years, it’s ...

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Congrats to the Accel team. We’ve seen this firsthand. When you back founders who are willing to de...

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When should a founder prioritize belief-building over clear answers during early category creation?

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Why do you call it a flywheel instead of a framework or process?

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March 2026

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Category Design: A Voyage Toward Belief In 2016, we published Play Bigger and introduced the idea o...

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February 2026

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“You can just run it through an LLM and generate the name.” A highly acclaimed board member said th...

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January 2026

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Many of the legendary founders I know were searching for a new world when we first met. They may c...

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Rob Burgess and the Flash EOL. One of the fondest memories of shenanigans with rob burgess was the ...

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December 2025

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Rob Burgess Some losses stop you. This is one of them. We lost Rob on December 21. And it’s hard t...

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The journey is long. The work is quiet. And sometimes, the signal comes back. This morning, The Exi...

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Its always a pleasure talking with founders about building belief and creating new markets. Today ...

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November 2025

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Am I Building Belief—Or Just Building Product? The first time I saw a team build the “right” thing ...

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It All Started in 1985. Now It Lives Inside MyDelphi. A conversation about intelligence, belief and...

11mo ago
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al ramadan podcast _ category design _ positioning.docx

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What is your most recent interview appearance

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Please summarize your interview on the library of minds podcast

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October 2025

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Missiles, Mass Transit, and AI’s Power Crunch It’s quite the day in Play Bigger, Category Design la...

11mo ago
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What a sixty-second ride at Middle Peak reminded me about being a founder. This weekend I paddled o...

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You’re 12–18 months from an IPO. Your banker says: “The market’s ready. The window is open.” But th...

1y ago
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What 5 Months of Racing in Europe Taught Me About Running a Company in California There’s a lot of ...

1y ago
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At some point before a major market debut — whether an IPO or a late-stage growth round — every foun...

1y ago
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang nailed the mindset in an interview on Podium VC: | “Our purpose should be t...

1y ago
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Every extraordinary market category you know today — Experience Management, e-Signiture, CRM, the In...

1y ago
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Positioning is the most dangerous trap in B2B. It’s not strategy. It’s surrender. And most teams do...

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