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
Insight
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.”
Kevin Aluwi Mar 26, 2023 ▶ 34:36 Taxi mafias, cash vaults & 100% MoM growth: The story of SEA’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)
Sep 21, 2023 negative
Insight
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 …”
Itamar Gilad Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 41:27 Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)
Oct 29, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ries: Mission-aligned founders prioritizing human flourishing will steamroll competitors
“We're gonna have a new wave of founders who take that seriously, who are gonna just, they're gonna steamroll.”
Eric Ries Oct 29, 2023 ▶ 1:42:34 Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
May 30, 2024 positive
Insight
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…”
Matt Dixon May 30, 2024 ▶ 40:00 The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon
Sep 8, 2026 negative
Opinion
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…”
Roman Ugarte Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 10:04 How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Sep 8, 2026 neutral
Insight
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…”
Roman Ugarte Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 34:48 How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
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