competitors
also referred to as: competitor
6 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 26, 2023 by Kevin Aluwi · across every show →
Everything said about competitors, oldest first
Mar 26, 2023 positive
Aluwi: Tackling Operationally Hard Tasks Creates Defensible Competitive Advantage
“Just simply doing things that are hard, as long as they prove, they create value to your customers actually is a position that makes it harder for your competitors to be able to win over your customers because it's hard to do those things.”
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Gilad: Validating features by copying competitors never works
“In many companies I meet, if the leading competitor has this feature and we think it's a good idea, validation is done. Let's launch it. That's it. It's a great idea. We need to do it. Never works, honestly. You should not assume that your competitor actually …”
Oct 29, 2023 bullish
May 30, 2024 positive
Dixon: Top salespeople build trust by admitting product flaws and competitor advantages
“We found in the analysis, there are specific things that sales, great salespeople do very early on. They are brutally transparent with customers about like, Hey, I know you were interested in this capability. I gotta be honest. It's, You know, we get mixed rev…”
Sep 8, 2026 negative
Ugarte: Bundling multiple AI form factors into one surface alienates users
“There's a brand association with these things, and so I think we evaluated that path, and I think we saw what maybe some of our competitors have been doing of this is all just one surface. You add new tabs for each new form factor, and it feels a little clutte…”
Sep 8, 2026 neutral
Ugarte: Sunk costs prevent AI incumbents from building from scratch
“I think our competitors and other tools that have been trying to solve these types of problems, I think we're all seeing the same opportunity. I think we're seeing a lot of those, the feedback from the market, but I think it's just been hard to act on if you'r…”