“In 2025, everyone can build fast. That’s the exciting part, and the scary part.” When we caught up with Ryan Carson, Christel Buchanan, Mihir Garimella, and Aakash Adesara at DevDay, we asked them what a real moat looks like when speed is baseline. Here were their key insights: 1️⃣ Taste matters. You can use the same ingredients, but get very different outcomes. 2️⃣ The shape of your product matters as much as the product itself: how does your solution fit into your users' workflows? 3️⃣ Go deep in one vertical. Solving one domain well beats going broad too early. 4️⃣ Keep customers at the center, using each release to deliver more value to real users who already care. We want to know: what's your moat in 2025?
Wow love this! So great to be featured alongside Ryan Carson , Mihir Garimella and Aakash Adesara . Thanks OpenAI for Startups for the lovely feature!! 🧡🧡 Sarah Urbonas Bree Bunzel Robyn Showers the dream team!
Thanks for the feature 😎 Great insights from everyone above - DevDay was a ton of fun!
This is amazing, I really like the concept of "taste matters", especially in the rising age of AI.
Brilliant insights. In 2025, speed won’t be a moat — resonance will. The real advantage comes from understanding one domain deeply, shaping the product around real workflows, and delivering value with every iteration. Taste, precision and focus are the new defensibility.**
Woot woot!! Let's go Aakash Adesara. P.S. Everyone should try consensus.app
My Moat is relationships - Distribution is trapped inside incumbents companies that already own the customer but can’t innovate fast enough. They have trust, channels, and scale. What they don’t have is product velocity. https://open.substack.com/pub/ryaneverton/p/the-10m-investment-bank-opportunity?r=1c7bq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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2dProduct shape + quality (and learning loops) = moat!