AI Era Business Moats: Why Speed and Process Power Trump Traditional Advantages Many entrepreneurs fall into the trap of believing they need to build defensive moats before even starting their ventures. This is a fundamental misunderstanding—moats aren’t prerequisites for starting, but rather emerge as natural byproducts of scaling from 1 to billions of users. The obsession with “not seeing a moat” often prevents promising ideas from ever launching, mistakenly bringing late-stage concerns to the earliest phases.