Category Pirates

Category Pirates

Category Pirates 🏴‍☠️

Episodes 110
Avg. Duration 27m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (1)
Since May 2024
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Weekly
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Episodic
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44%
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About This Podcast

The authority on category design, category creation & creator capitalism. Sharing how legendary entrepreneurs, executives, marketers, and creators design business breakthroughs. By Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, & Bri Clark

www.categorypirates.news

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Why Showing Up Isn't Enough: The Fatherhood 2.0 Trap

Jun 12, 2026 57m

We loved celebrating all the moms in our lives a few weeks ago over Mother’s Day, and now it’s time to celebrate the dads.Before we get into the episode, we have something fun to share.The Parent…

Who are the Category Kings of AI Going To Be? | The Pirate Street Journal

Jun 10, 2026 35m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.categorypirates.newsOn June 12, SpaceX is going public at $135 per share and a $1.75 trillion valuation.4% of total shares are being…

"Lowest Consumer Sentiment" Is Good News?

Jun 03, 2026 38m

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…

How Jennifer Hall Thornton, An Agentic Mom, Agentified Her Own Kids

May 29, 2026 1h 8m

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…

Category Queen vs. Category Queen: Is OpenAI About to Get Dethroned?

May 27, 2026 39m

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…

The Great Re-Rating: Is the SaaSpocalypse Real?

May 22, 2026 34m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.categorypirates.newsLast week, we recorded the very first episode of the Pirate Street Journal.The Pirate Street Journal is for…

Why Turning Down Stanford Was The Best Career Move Linda Deeken Ever Made

May 15, 2026 1h 8m

“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…

Happy first birthday, Pirate Eddie Bot.

May 13, 2026 59m

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…

How To Mother Like A Creator Capitalist With 5 Moms Walking The Talk

May 01, 2026 1h 4m

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…

Career Quakes Part 2 Audiobook

Apr 22, 2026 5m

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/subscribeNearly half of all economic value is created by…

Career Quakes Part 1 Audiobook

Apr 22, 2026 6m

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/subscribeMost people think careers are built through…

Lightning Strike Legends Audiobook

Apr 22, 2026 4m

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/subscribeMost people read about strategy. Pirates…

How To Raise $50M Without Giving Up A Single Point Of Equity With Dr. Eric Hanson

Apr 17, 2026 52m

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,…

A creator and a capitalist are the same person

Apr 08, 2026 1h 18m

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,…

How To Win An Unwinnable Situation With Shelly Rood

Apr 03, 2026 51m

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…

How a five-year-old beats a 55 year old knowledge worker

Mar 25, 2026 17m

This is a 🏴‍☠️ Founding Members–Only 🏴‍☠️ post. Founding Members get access to the Pirate Eddie Bot to ask category design questions, weekly actionable insights, the full library with 30+ audiobooks,…

Run Circles Around $2 Billion Companies: How Two Knowledge Workers Became Creator Capitalists With Nick Kringas And Lydia Flocchini

Mar 20, 2026 1h 20m

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…

Why AI Is Making Most People Dumber And How Creator Capitalists Use It To Get Smarter

Mar 06, 2026 35m

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…

Why Jeff Klimkowski's Goal is Zero Free Cash Flow Growth and How Diesel Dan AI Agent Helps

Feb 20, 2026 47m

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…

Thinker's High: Runner's High For Your Mind

Feb 06, 2026 20m

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.…

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