Also if you’re first to market in a period of high demand, you can sell at higher prices than those that come later. See https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history

Also if you’re first to market in a period of high demand, you can sell at higher prices than those that come later. See https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-tea-race-of-1866-8209465/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-tea-race-of... “But in the middle of the 19th century, demand for fresh tea was such that the first vessel home from Fuzhou or Shanghai could command a premium of at least 10 percent for her wares, and a clipper ship that cost perhaps £12,000 or £15,000 to build might bring home a cargo worth almost £3,000 on her first voyage.“