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Category Pirates 🏴☠️ hosts Category Pirates, a business show with 111 episodes published.
The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index just came in at 44.8. The lowest reading in the history of the survey. April was already the worst on record. We beat it, then beat it again a month later. Near-zero un
Jennifer Hall Thornton has a PhD and a law degree. Her kids’ friends call her Dr. Doctor. She ran the everything-but-sales side of a digital company while raising two kids thirteen months apart, with an elderly mother ne
Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for compute. Every month through May of 2029. Roughly $45 billion total. That single contract is bigger than SpaceX’s entire annual revenue today. Software is paying hardw
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.categorypirates.news Last week, we recorded the very first episode of the Pirate Street Journal. The Pirate Street Journal is for leaders with a different
“Bet on yourself sooner” is the most popular piece of career advice on the internet. It’s also the most useless. Nobody who says it tells you what to bet on. So most people hear it and do the obvious thing. They bet hard
We have an exciting update for you. A year ago this week, we launched the Pirate Eddie Bot. At the time, it was a librarian. You’d ask it a question, it would point you back to a mini-book, you’d go do your own thinking.
We did something different this episode. Pirate Eddie wasn’t here. Pirate Christopher wasn’t here. Pirate Bri sat down with five of the most formidable Creator Capitalist moms in our pirate ship and let them run the conv
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.categorypirates.news/subscribe Nearly half of all economic value is created by the people everyone
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.categorypirates.news/subscribe Most people think careers are built through planning. They’re not.
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.categorypirates.news/subscribe Most people read about strategy. Pirates execute it. This is the fi
Welcome to Creator Capitalist Conversations, a series spotlighting Category Designers who have rejected traditional career paths and built lives around what makes them different. Our new book, Creator Capitalist, is avai
Welcome to Creator Capitalist Conversations, a series spotlighting Category Designers who have rejected traditional career paths and built lives around what makes them different. Our new book, Creator Capitalist, is avai
Shelly Rood is Jane Bond. Captain Shelly is a 16-year Army intelligence officer who spent her career doing one thing: reading situations most people couldn’t see, synthesizing what it meant, and briefing decision-makers
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Lydia Flocchini is a lawyer who decided the law wasn’t enough. Nick Kringas is a restaurateur, SEO pioneer, and serial category designer. Together, they walked into a legal tech conference with a $24,000 budget, a two-we
New research is showing what we’ve suspected for a while: on average, AI is making people stupider over time. Not because AI is bad. Because most people use it badly. They show up with radical obvious—”write me a blog po
Jeff Klimkowski didn’t plan on his career ending up in the toilet (pun intended.) He was a Deutsche Bank investment banker. The kind of kid who made his sister drive him to school so he could read the Wall Street Journal
Dear Friend, Subscriber, and Category Pirate, This episode is about the most undervalued skill in the world right now: thinking. Not “consuming content” thinking. Not “I read a thread on X” thinking. Not “my algorithm to
Good CEOs obsess over the scoreboard. Great CEOs obsesses over how the game is played. That’s the difference between managing a P&L and creating a category. In this conversation, we sit down with Clint Carnell—a CEO who’
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.categorypirates.news/subscribe For 30 years, books have been one of the only products in the world
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