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🗓️ 19 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Alright, here's what you should do when your product gets copied. |
0:03.0 | So I thought this would be a fun conversation because literally over the weekend, one of our customers who is with a subsidiary called a large Indian subsidiary company, |
0:12.0 | they said, hey, isn't this your product? |
0:14.0 | And we looked at it, I'm like, oh, son of a bee. |
0:17.0 | So an India company copied you or some Indiaia company told you about it no india company |
0:22.1 | told me about it got it's some american that works for an indian company as they saw it they were like |
0:25.8 | working on the weekend and then so i was sitting on my couch it's like 734 p.m i was sitting on my |
0:29.9 | couch watching anime right on saturday and um cto messages me hey like, oh, this is our first copycat. And the moment I looked at that, my blood started boiling, right? |
0:39.5 | And I looked at it. |
0:41.3 | And the video, it's so well done. |
0:43.4 | And the funny thing is, the UI looks exactly like ours, right? |
0:46.4 | They have a lot more features. |
0:48.2 | They're a lot more feature complete, I would say, than we are. But basically five minutes after I got pissed, I was like, this is nice, |
0:55.4 | because we can go into it. But it's not like we're going to copy it a product roadmap. It's like |
1:00.3 | more so it galvanizes us and it galvanizes my team and motivates us to push even harder. |
1:08.3 | And at first, you're pissed. |
1:16.7 | I'm assuming you felt some sort of flattery after a while being like, all right, like you said, you guys are on the right path. |
1:21.6 | And eventually, if you're doing the right thing, you will get copycats. |
1:28.3 | But did you hear the Travis Kalanak speech about Uber and all the copycats out of Asia? |
1:32.8 | Yeah, that he, well, I know that he respects them. |
1:38.7 | What ended up happening was you see a lot of competitors that just start copying you. |
1:43.2 | And as you add more features, they start copying you and they keep adding more features. And what he broke down with Uber and what he saw was, |
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