First Mover Advantage

topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes

Capital Allocators Top Founders the MAD Podcast

3 statements about First Mover Advantage, every show

Diaz: SaaS category creation head start has shrunk from years to months
“Category creation. Used to be maybe, ah, a multi-year head start. Now it's a few months. Right? The number of categories, we have three competitors, a vendor here, we've got multiple people in the security and kind of SOC to automation here. So that head start…”
Ariel Diaz May 29, 2023 ▶ 14:20 Why Velocity is the #1 Sustainable Advantage
Siegel: Second-movers win in tech because pioneering first-movers get shot
“And the first mover advantage is that pioneers get shot. They spend a lot of money and invent the necessary technology, then the settlers get rich. So the second mover advantage is the real advantage.”
Larry Siegel May 11, 2020 ▶ 29:48 Laurence Siegel – Current Myths and Long-Term Optimism (Capital Allocators, EP.137)
MAD Insight
Blockchain analytics first movers have a data moat latecomers cannot replicate
“Even if that data is preserved forever no one will be able to amass the same dataset if you're the first mover into that space.”
Jonathan Levin Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 11:29 Building a Data Company // Jonathan Levin, Chainalysis (FirstMark's Data Driven)

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