"people who are really serious about products should make their own protocols". protocols create value, products capture it

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because its the only place in the stack to differentiate, with a reasonably defensible moat

once proven successful, whatever you do with product can (and will) be easily copied by someone with more distribution

easy to fork a protocol, much harder to fork its network

Just thinking. Why would you need your own protocol? What's the advantage of owning it?