Adam Fishman

2025-07-01 • business growth note taking venture capital granola ai

Adam Fishman discusses the growth strategy of Granola, an AI-assisted notetaking app that has gained popularity among venture capitalists. He highlights its unique 'no-bot' approach, which allows for seamless transcription without...

2025-11-18 • leadership growth hiring practices interviews depth method

Adam introduces a guest post by Sarah Charlton, an AI company growth advisor, who shares her framework for interviewing executives, known as the Depth Method. This method, inspired by NASA's approach to evaluating mission readines...

2025-11-12 • technology tools prototyping product management ai

The article discusses the rise of AI prototyping tools and their transformative impact on product development. Authored by Sachin Rekhi, a seasoned product leader, it outlines the advantages of AI-driven prototyping over tradition...

2025-09-02 • business growth firefox product design ai stage-gating

Adam Fishman discusses the implementation of a Stage-Gating framework for new product development at Mozilla, aimed at improving clarity and efficiency in the approval process. He outlines the five stages of the framework: Discove...

2025-08-05 • video production user generated content veo online advertising ai

In this article, Dan Birdwhistell shares his extensive experience and insights on mastering AI-generated video ads, particularly using Google's Veo3 model. He discusses the growing trend of companies incorporating AI video into th...

2025-10-28 • leadership engineering product management trust

In this guest post by Marina Miller, she shares valuable lessons learned from her extensive experience at Palantir, where she worked closely with engineering partners in high-stakes environments. The article emphasizes the importa...

2025-10-31 • community fundraising marketing volunteer pumpkin

In this newsletter, Adam shares insights from the Wildwood Dads Club's annual pumpkin patch fundraiser, highlighting a significant revenue increase from $54,000 in 2024 to $69,100 in 2025. He discusses the importance of operationa...

2026-01-20 • marketing sales cold outreach ai outreach strategy

Cold email outreach is becoming less effective, but with a strategic approach focusing on personalization and understanding audience needs, it can still drive growth.

2025-09-05 • technology industry browser extension atlassian acquisition ai

Adam Fishman discusses Atlassian's acquisition of The Browser Company, which developed the Arc browser and other AI-driven applications. He analyzes the strategic reasons behind the acquisition, noting that The Browser Company str...

2025-06-10 • marketing code activation template foundation models law ai

The text discusses the unique activation challenge faced by AI products and how successful AI companies have converged on the same activation strategy. It covers the definition of activation, the importance of the activation journ...

2025-05-13 • search engine growth perplexity ai

Adam Fishman's newsletter discusses the growth strategies of Perplexity, a search engine company, and how they are competing with other AI companies. The company has implemented various linear channels, user-generated content loop...

2025-04-29 • growth product superme ai

Adam introduces his AI profile, powered by SuperMe, which allows people to ask questions and get advice on growth and product. The AI profile is based on all the content Adam has ever created and provides a guided approach to prob...

2025-03-26 • leadership startup growth founder-led growth series a funding

The text discusses the challenges of hiring a growth leader in a startup, focusing on different stages of funding and the skills required at each stage. It emphasizes the importance of founder-led growth in the early stages and th...

2025-03-18 • product management building

The text discusses the challenges of communicating progress in product development within a larger company. It outlines a stage-based communication framework to strike the right balance, and provides detailed insights into the fir...

2024-12-17 •

Adam Fishman's newsletter provides a no-nonsense approach to solving problems for people and companies, covering topics such as growth, product, company building, and parenting while working. The newsletter has grown to over 11,00...

2024-10-31 •

The text discusses the success of a local pumpkin patch, managed by a group of volunteer Dads, in increasing revenue and profits through various strategies. The strategies include improved signage, delivery service, positioning an...

2024-10-08 •

The text discusses the concept of leveraging opinionated defaults to shape behavior and improve metrics in product design. It provides examples of how opinionated defaults are used in location, pricing, payment methods, templates,...

2024-08-28 •

Adam Fishman shares his experiences and tactics for solving problems in companies and startups, including customer acquisition and retention, company culture, forecasting, and product-building. He emphasizes the importance of doin...

2024-07-30 •

Adam Fishman discusses the tricky topic of metrics ownership, highlighting a framework introduced in the Growth Leadership program at Reforge. He outlines a three-step process for defining different ownership types, mapping owners...

2024-07-02 •

The text is a newsletter by Adam Fishman discussing the history and problems with performance reviews. He suggests six changes to improve the current performance review process.

2024-06-19 •

Adam Fishman provides a no-nonsense approach to solving problems for people and companies, including growth, product, company building, and parenting while working. He outlines a five-step process for defining a growth strategy, s...

2024-06-11 •

Adam Fishman's newsletter provides a no-nonsense approach to solving problems for people and companies, including growth, product, company building, and parenting while working. The sixth installment of Failure Stories features st...

2024-05-28 •

The text discusses the benefits of play-based education for children and how those behaviors can be encouraged in the workplace to lead to exceptional results. It emphasizes creativity, innovation, learning through experimentation...

2024-05-21 •

The text provides a structured approach to international expansion, focusing on the challenges and strategies for companies of different sizes. It emphasizes the importance of a tailored strategy and a data-based prioritization me...