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Moat
A durable advantage that makes you hard to copy — network effects, switching costs, brand, data or scale.
Why it matters
Investors fund the moat as much as the product: what stops the next well-funded team from doing this to you?
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Episodes on Product
Pick My Brain with Alan Jones · 14 July 2026
How Do You Sell Software to an Industry That Won't Change? Mitchell Baker on Claimstack
Pick My Brain with Alan Jones · 7 July 2026
What's Your Moat When AI Can Copy Your Product in 48 Hours? | Dilip Jacob from Pitchberry
In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 19 June 2026
"AI Should Bring Us Closer Together, Not Make Us More Lonely" with Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of Notion
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