The Four Stages of Building a Category

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There are three components to measuring a category: market share, ecosystem, and thought leadership.
Market share refers to the top customers within the segment that are buying the category from us.
Ecosystem includes other alternatives and providers that offer different pieces of the value.
Thought leadership encompasses the point of view, materials, and evidence to show maturation and progress.
The building of a category can be divided into four stages.

Our guest today is Artem Kroupenev, VP of Strategy at Augury.

Augury is a leader in a category they helped to define known as “machine health.” The company sells products that combine hardware, AI, and SaaS within industrial manufacturing.

Artem joined the team at the very beginning of its journey and helped shape strategies for how the team measured product-market fit, go-to-market, and eventually, a strategy for designing a brand new market category they could compete in.

In our conversation today, we dive deep into measurable product-market fit and category-creation strategies. Artem shares particular wisdom on:

Augury’s storyboard-based approach to product vision
How to sell to a limited pool of customers
The REV (revenue, engagement and value) model from measuring product-market fit
When founders should start exploring creating a new category to operate in

You can follow Artem on Twitter at @artemkroupenev You can email us questions directly at review@firstround.com or follow us on Twitter @firstround and @brettberson.