Maya Lin Chen
Product & Strategy at Signal
Former PM at Figma and Stripe. Writes about product strategy, competitive dynamics, and how companies make decisions that look obvious in retrospect but weren't at the time.
Articles by Maya Lin Chen
- Apple's AI Siri Relaunch Is Coming. Here's Why It Will Fail at Distribution. — Mar 14, 2026
- How Perplexity Reached $200M ARR With No Advertising Budget — Mar 8, 2026
- Vertical AI Is Killing Horizontal SaaS — And Your Foundation Model Provider Is Helping — Feb 5, 2026
- OpenAI Burns $17 Billion a Year. The AI Business Model Might Be Impossible. — Oct 30, 2025
- The $650 Billion Question: Is AI's Infrastructure Boom the Next Fiber Optic Bubble? — Oct 3, 2025
- Figma at $1.1B Revenue: How the Design Tool Won the AI Race It Almost Lost — Mar 3, 2026
- The Compound Startup: Why the Fastest-Growing Companies Are Launching 3 Products at Once — Mar 9, 2026
- Duolingo's AI-First Gamble — How the $1B EdTech Giant Bet Everything on AI and What Actually Happened — Mar 9, 2026
- The AI Search War Isn't Perplexity vs. Google \u2014 It's Google vs. Itself — Mar 9, 2026
- The Compound Pricing Problem: Why AI Startups Can't Figure Out What to Charge — Mar 9, 2026
- Apple's AI Silence Is a Strategy, Not a Failure — Mar 9, 2026
- Apple Intelligence Is Late, Slow, and Probably the Right Strategy — Mar 9, 2026
- OpenAI's For-Profit Pivot: The $300B Bet That Changed Silicon Valley's Soul — Mar 9, 2026
- Shopify's AI Sidekick Experiment Failed. Its Merchant Data Moat Didn't. — Mar 10, 2026
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