Archive - Brian Balfour

How Claude Is Building A Unique Growth Engine Out of User-Created Apps

Anthropic recently launched Claude AI-powered apps. It's unique constraints creates a potentially new powerful growth model. Here is a full breakdown.

Jul 21 •

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June 2025

How To Navigate The AI Distribution Shift

The AI tech shift happened. The AI distribution shift Is just beginning. Here's how to play the game before it plays you.

Jun 29 •

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The Next Great Distribution Shift

Thank you to Casey Winters, Aaron White, Dan Hockenmaier, Fareed Mosavat and Adam Fishman for reading early versions of this and providing feedback.

Jun 18 •

AI Native Product Teams: How They Will Think, Work, and Build Differently

Every decade, a technology shift rewrites how we build and grow products. We are in the midst of one with AI but are underestimating (not…

Jun 15 •

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