Framework
The Switch-Off Test
Jeremy's moat framework for any critical input your business depends on.
How it works
- 1Ask of any critical input: who can switch this off?
- 2If the answer is a competitor, a platform, or a foreign government, you are renting your business.
- 3Cornish Lithium built and patented its own extraction technology specifically so no one else holds the off switch.
- 4Founders: apply this to your data, your distribution, and your infrastructure.
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