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2026-06-30
08:02

Your Product is No Longer Your Moat

AI Can Copy Your Product in Weeks. What's Left?

GTM OSPillar 1: Total Relevant Market (TRM)Pillar 5: Customer Time to Value (CTV)
Sangram Vajre
Co-Founder, GTM Partners & Author of MOVE
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About This Video

Topic
Why GTM is the new competitive moat in B2B
Audience
CEOs, CROs, CMOs & GTM leaders
Frameworks Covered

Executive Takeaways

  • AI tools can rapidly recreate software features, making pure product engineering an unsustainable competitive moat.
  • Sustainable competitive advantage comes from an engineered GTM operating system that targets high-propensity ICP accounts and accelerates customer time-to-value.
  • CEOs must actively take ownership of go-to-market strategy to build lasting enterprise value and avoid a race to the bottom.

Key Questions Answered in This Video

Why is a great product no longer enough to build a defensible B2B business?

With AI tools able to analyze applications and replicate core features over a weekend, product functionality alone no longer creates a sustainable moat. Defensibility now relies on an efficient go-to-market engine.

What replaces product as a company's primary moat?

Your go-to-market capability—specifically connecting with high-propensity ICP accounts, presenting a differentiated point of view, and delivering customer time-to-value in days rather than months.

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Sangram Vajre: For the last twenty years in Silicon Valley, the mantra was 'build a great product and customers will beat a path to your door.' That era is officially dead. When an AI tool can analyze your application and recreate your core features over a weekend, product is no longer your moat. What protects your business now? Your go-to-market. Your ability to connect with high-propensity ICP accounts, guide them through a differentiated point of view, and deliver time-to-value in days rather than months. Great companies don't just engineer code; they engineer their revenue operating system. That is why CEOs who take ownership of GTM create lasting enterprise equity while product-only founders find themselves competing in a race to the bottom.
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