Platform as Moat

When a company shifts from selling products to building an ecosystem, its competitive advantage moves from single-product superiority to network effects and lock-in effects—the more participants, the deeper the dependency, and the harder it is for competitors to enter.

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Related principles

• ↺ Counters
  Regulatory Arbitrage & Platform Hostage-Taking
• → Links
  Vertical Integration as Platform Defense
• ↗ Extends
  Platformized Drug Discovery: Asset Ownership to Capability Integration
• ↗ Extends
  Platform Moat Softening
• ↗ Extends
  Ecosystem Transition
• ↺ Counters
  Interoperability Over Platform Consolidation
• → Links
  Competitive Signaling and Imitation Game
• → Links
  Integration Over Innovation