Eric Siu argues that early adopters build lasting advantages by running tight feedback loops. Amazon and early Google users gained edge through constant testing and iteration, not just being first. Skills, loops, and evals compound over time into real competitive moats.
The early days of the internet, for example, it took 5 years for people to adopt, companies to adopt using email. Okay, well, the companies that were ahead in the 5 years before that, what kind of advantage did they compound? I remember Amazon started in 1998. I was using, I think in 1999 I was using Google already and I had an unfair information advantage. Again, eventually everything kind of smooths out, but you might as well eat this advantage up all you can. And I think skills evals loops are a great way to do it.
