What this round tests
- Market timing — why now, why this segment
- Durable advantage — what makes the moat hold
- Org-level trade-offs and second-order effects
What interviewers are listening for
- A defendable point of view, not 'it depends'
- Awareness of who you're competing against
- Honest discussion of what could break the bet
Common mistakes
- Hedging every claim — 'depends on the data'
- Confusing tactics (a feature) with strategy (a position)
- Ignoring the competitive response to your move
Concepts tested in strategy
Practice questions (25)
- Should a B2B SaaS product add an AI copilot?
- Build, buy, or partner: AI photo editor
- Pricing for a freemium developer tool
- Reposition against an upmarket competitor
- Bundle or charge separately for AI?
- Move down to SMB or stay enterprise?
- Pivot from feature to platform
- Cold-start strategy for a marketplace
- Moat for an AI-native note-taking app
- Acquire a community or build it
- Open-source a developer tool
- Build a platform from a single feature
- Sequence international expansion
- Vertical-specific product variant
- Unbundle a feature into a separate product
- Loyalty program for a SaaS
- Monetize a free distribution channel
- Build an ecosystem
- Defend against an open-source clone
- Pivot product positioning
- Disrupt an entrenched incumbent
- PLG vs sales-led for a new product
- Move from prosumer to enterprise
- Manage a declining product line
- Distribution partnership trade-offs
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