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Four-Step Platform Cycle

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Lenny’s Podcast104 min

Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life

Brian Balfour · Oct 5, 2023
Key learnings
  • Building a great product is necessary but not sufficient; durable winners separate themselves by building strong distribution…
  • New distribution platforms tend to follow a cycle: competitive consensus, identifying a moat, opening a third-party ecosystem…
  • Being early to a new platform matters because late adopters face shrinking windows, since platform cycles appear to be getting…