阿爾·拉馬丹、戴夫·彼得森和剋裏斯托弗·洛剋海德是Play Bigger公司的創始人。他們曾經是企業傢、高管和經營者，現在是品類設計教練，幫助客戶設計及創建新品類。三人都生活在矽榖。

凱文·梅尼生活在紐約，他是一位經驗豐富的科技記者，也是知名作傢，著有《預見力》《權衡》（Trade-Off）《特立獨行者和他的IBM帝國》（The Maverick and His Machine）。他住在紐約。

在過去25年中，4位作者與許多技術領域*偉大的品類設計者相識、共事或競爭。

The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design.

Winning today isn’t about beating the competition at the old game. It’s about inventing a whole new game—defining a new market category, developing it, and dominating it over time. You can’t build a legendary company without building a legendary category. If you think that having the best product is all it takes to win, you’re going to lose.

In this farsighted, pioneering guide, the founders of Silicon Valley advisory firm Play Bigger rely on data analysis and interviews to understand the inner workings of “category kings”— companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, Uber, and IKEA—that give us new ways of living, thinking or doing business, often solving problems we didn’t know we had.

In Play Bigger, the authors assemble their findings to introduce the new discipline of category design. By applying category design, companies can create new demand where none existed, conditioning customers’ brains so they change their expectations and buying habits. While this discipline defines the tech industry, it applies to every kind of industry and even to personal careers.

Crossing the Chasm revolutionized how we think about new products in an existing market. The Innovator’s Dilemma taught us about disrupting an aging market. Now, Play Bigger is transforming business once again, showing us how to create the market itself.