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178 analyses · Moat & Competition
Etsy Sells a Word, Not a Wall. "Handmade" Is the Moat - and It's Leaking.
Etsy
TJ Maxx's Moat Isn't the Treasure Hunt. It's That You Can't Ship One.
TJX (TJ Maxx)
Costco's Moat Isn't the Low Prices. It's the Reason You Can't Afford to Cancel.
Costco
Nvidia's Moat Isn't the Code. It's the Eighteen Years You'd Have to Re-Live to Catch Up.
Nvidia
TSMC's Moat Isn't 2nm. It's Owning 2029 While Everyone Else Argues About 2026.
TSMC
Apple's Moat Isn't Design. It's the Cost of Leaving — and It Compounds.
Apple
Apple's Strongest Lock-In Is Free. It's the Color of a Text Bubble.
Apple
Dell's Direct Model Wasn't a Religion. It Was a Bet That Lost Once and Got Quietly Abandoned.
Dell
Prime's Flywheel Is Real. It's Also Partly Coerced.
Amazon
AWS Didn't Win Because It Was First. It Won Because of What It Built While Alone.
Amazon
CrowdStrike's Moat and Its Worst Day Were the Same Decision
CrowdStrike
Intuit Owns Two Lock-Ins. Only One of Them Is Actually Strong.
Intuit
Microsoft Didn't Beat Slack. It Made Slack a Line Item You Had to Decline.
Microsoft
Oracle's Database Doesn't Keep You. The Audit Does.
Oracle
Oracle's License Audits Aren't a Compliance Check. They're a Sales Channel.
Oracle
AMD Didn't Out-Invent Intel. It Stopped Owning the One Thing That Sank Intel.
AMD vs Intel
AWS Still Owns 30% of the Cloud. The Moat Is Holding — and Quietly Under Siege.
AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud
Airbus Didn't Beat Boeing. Boeing Lost to Boeing Three Times.
Airbus vs Boeing
Adidas Earned Its Way Onto the Field. Nike Bought Its Way Into the Myth.
Nike vs Adidas
Bricks vs. Clicks Is Over. They Both Won, and Now They Want the Same Thing.
Walmart vs Amazon
Microsoft Doesn't Trap You With Contracts. It Traps You With Plumbing.
Microsoft
Nike Fired Its Own Distributors. Then It Hired Them Back.
Nike
Visa's Moat Isn't the Network. It's the Contracts the DOJ Calls a Cage.
Visa
Airbnb's Moat Isn't a Wall. It's Four Leaky Buckets That Don't Drain at Once.
Airbnb
LVMH's Moat Isn't Its Brands. It's the Land, the Hands, and the Wallet Behind Them.
LVMH
Oracle Doesn't Sell Software. It Sells the Inability to Leave.
Oracle
Salesforce Didn't Lock In Your Company. It Locked In Your Career.
Salesforce
TSMC's Moat Isn't Taiwan. It's a Loop No Rival Can Out-Spend.
TSMC
ASML Didn't Win the Standards War. It Was Handed the Trophy.
ASML
PayPal's Lock-In Is a Velvet Rope, Not a Locked Door. And the Difference Is Everything.
PayPal