Strategy and product
Moat
A competitive advantage that's hard for rivals to copy, so it protects the business over time, like a moat round a castle. Network effects, switching costs, brand and proprietary data are common moats.
You'll hear it as
Anyone can build the features. Our moat is ten years of customer data.
Why it matters to you.
AI is draining many software moats, because features that took years can now be copied in weeks. That's why the question "what's our moat?" keeps coming up.
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