What's your sustainable competitive advantage?

Justin is interviewed by Nathan Baschez to talk about business strategy:

"Every strategy is really just a theory: “We bet if we do x, then y will happen. In business, the 'y' that people are usually aiming for is some sort of sustainable competitive advantage." – Nathan Baschez

This is a long episode, but it's a good one!

What made Jon and Justin feel like they had an advantage in podcasting?Original hypothesis: "Maybe we could be to podcasting, what WPengine was to WordPress hosting. Or what Wistia was to video hosting." How did that work out?Nathan's take on the podcast industry from his experience working for Gimlet.When should you focus on a niche?

Links:

Nathan's intro post for Divinations: What is business strategy?Nathan on TwitterSubscribe to DivinationsRodney Mullen: you only win once

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