First mover advantage has mostly been debunked as a strategy, the history of tech startups is littered with mildly successful first movers (Friendster being the

First mover advantage has mostly been debunked as a strategy, the history of tech startups is littered with mildly successful first movers (Friendster being the classic go-to anecdote) that later gets dominated by 1-2 tech companies who do it better. Akamai's advantage is probably it's sales business and existing contracts. Workers is just business #1383 for Cloudflare which can take advantage of their freemium scaling model