The only way to win copycats and competitors is to just execute your own vision. The best example I know is Wolfram Mathematica. ~35-40 years of incremental dev

The only way to win copycats and competitors is to just execute your own vision. The best example I know is Wolfram Mathematica. ~35-40 years of incremental development guided by the same "product owner/visionary", and there are no real competitors left and it is nearly impossible to build competing product now.