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Strategy and product

Incumbent

The established company that already leads a market.

You'll hear it as

The incumbent's product is old, but every customer already uses it.

Why it matters to you.

Beating an incumbent usually takes being clearly better at one thing they neglect, not slightly better at everything.

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