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There is nothing stopping Wolkswagen from creating a product similar to Tesla.

There is nothing stoping Microsoft from creating a search engine as good as Google’s.

There is nothing stopping Facebook from creating an iPhone alternative, after all it’s just engineering!

There is nothing stopping Google from beating GPT-4.

Shall I go on?



To what end?

The point is that "moat" gets conflated with just being ahead in the game. I don't find it a super interesting point of contention, but there is a distinction alright.




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