Definition
Distribution as Defensibility
The thesis that owning an audience or community is now more durable than owning proprietary code.
From the episode “"Your Code Is Worthless" A Top VC Just Told Us Why | The Trillion-Dollar Founder Personality Type Nobody Talks About”Hear it on the podcast1 episode
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