#business #business # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[Business/Entrepreneurship/New technology outbreak - Vicarious learning - Last mover advantage]] - [[Business/Entrepreneurship/First mover advantage]] - [[Business/Entrepreneurship/Teresa Torres]] - [[Business/Entrepreneurship/B2B sales]] - [[Business/Entrepreneurship/Marc Andreessen]] # Last mover advantage The last player in a game can learn from the moves of the others and have a better chance of winning. >The history of technology businesses, as well as many others, suggests that it’s very often the case that the second or third mover ends up winning. Sometimes it pays to let someone else create a market and be the second or third entrant. That was true in the spreadsheet business with Lotus. That was true in the personal computing business with Dell, true in the router business with Cisco >~ [[Tren Griffin]] [[Vicarious learning - Software Engineering]], learn from others first tinkering, copy, then bring the special sauce that triggers [[Philosophy/Innovation|innovation]]