Cf @bhorowitz “earned secrets”. “You tried to solve a hard problem and learned something that nobody else knows.”
That feels orthogonal to defensibility. In pure software businesses, an idea nobody had before makes you first mover not gold medalist.
Counter-arguments welcome!
. @pmarca on product-based moats: "rare... because there are a lot of really good engineers." Interesting to think about classes of people who have something unique & irreplaceable. Reminded of the famous comment on Kelly Johnson: "That damn Swede can actually see air."pic.twitter.com/KRex6zOZsE
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(Module patents, the fundamental monopoly nature of a good marketplace, etc. My point is that a great coder and a great ideas person both fundamentally make things that can be copied by someone with better execution who will then crush the original biz.)
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Thanks for continuing to post actionable and meaningful. I have been a fan of your writing.
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Which book/article is this from?
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PhotoShop is one of the few I can think of in software.
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