The Life Of A Founder In The Middle Of Category Design w/ Hannah Grady Williams

Category Thinkers

Aug 8 2023 • 50 mins

You can read the books, and listen to all the podcasts about Category Design, but nothing beats learning from the experience of someone currently in the trenches of designing a new category.

That's why we wanted to pull the curtain back on what it feels like to be actively designing a category as a startup founder/CEO with Hannah Grady Williams, Founder of d'Skills.

After a TEDx Talk and best-selling book led to a thriving consulting business, Hannah decided to design a new category of education for Gen Z...

So she founded a company called d’Skills and even recruited Christopher Lochhead to her board.

Join the co-founders and ambassadors of the Category Thinkers Community, John Rougeux and Pablo Gonzalez, to pick Hannah's brain about:

  • Why she decided to play bigger and design a category
  • How she spends her time as a founder in the middle of a category design
  • What she did to monetize her idea before the category is ready to emerge
  • How often she iterates on her category language and strategy


This was recorded as part of a Category Thinkers Community AMA so you'll hear questions from our community being incorporated into the conversation.

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Sponsors for this episode are:

Category Design Advisors
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