Launching fast is still wildly under appreciated. Most prominent example I can think of is Solana. Last cycle they raised the least $ among alt L1s / L2s. But got to the market first. FTX happened to be looking for a partner and Solana was the only available high throughput solution. The rest is history.

Side note: despite what ultimately happened to FTX, it played an undeniably massive role in bootstrapping Solana dev ecosystem in the early days, by becoming its first “major customer”.

Exactly what happened for us at Hype.day when we shipped Flow support over a weekend. Flow community needed a solution like ours and that weekend ‘feature’ brought us our the first 80K connected wallets.