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Orca’s Agentless Edge: Faster Cloud Security Buy-In · MATCH B2B INSIGHTS

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  Welcome to the show -- I'm Brenda with Daniel Weiss and בני פלומן,
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  and picture this: a cloud security buyer logs into Orca,
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  connects an AWS account, and instead of installing software on hundreds
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  of machines, the screen starts filling with plain-English findings --
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  exposed assets, risky identities,
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  misconfigurations, vulnerable workloads,
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  and a prioritized list of what to fix FIRST.
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  And that opening scene is the whole commercial story.
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  Orca is a cloud security platform,
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  yes.
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  But the thing that matters in go-to-market terms is brutally simple:
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  you can start without deploying agents.
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  No long rollout.
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  No army of admins.
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  No "come back in six weeks after IT approves the package."
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  Right.
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  The user flow is unusually clean for security software.
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  Step one, connect the cloud account.
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  Step two, Orca scans the environment from the cloud layer.
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  Step three, it surfaces risks -- misconfigurations,
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  exposed data, vulnerable assets,
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  identity issues.
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  Step four, and this is important,
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  it prioritizes what matters first instead of dumping a raw spreadsheet
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  of alerts on the team.That "connect, scan, prioritize" sequence
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  matters because a buyer can actually SEE value fast.
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  They're not staring at a deployment project plan.
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  They're staring at their own environment.
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  Exactly.
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  And in security, time-to-first-insight is not a soft metric.
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  It's the difference between evaluation momentum and evaluation fatigue.
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  If the first interaction is operational work,
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  you create drag before trust exists.
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  If the first interaction is visible risk in the buyer's own cloud estate,
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  you create relevance immediately. Let me make that even more commercial.
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  Most companies think the advantage here is technical efficiency.
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  It is -- but that's not the headline.
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  The headline is LOWER FRICTION to start.
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  That's what opens the account.
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  Buyers don't buy architecture diagrams first.
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  They buy easy next steps.So when people say "agentless is
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  the product differentiator,"
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  you're both basically saying...
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  not exactly.
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  It's also the sales differentiator.
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  Almost -- the product and the sales
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  motion are fused.
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  Agentless changes the operational requirement at the front of the funnel.
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  No agent means fewer dependencies.
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  Fewer dependencies mean fewer stakeholders needed on day one.
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  And fewer stakeholders mean a first meeting can happen before the opportunity
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  gets buried inside a cross-functional approval chain.
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  And that is where
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  a lot of B2B teams miss the plot.
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  They pitch capability.
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  The buyer experiences friction.
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  Orca's smart move was that the buyer experience at minute one supports
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  the pitch.
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  "We'll show you risk quickly, with minimal setup." That's not just messaging
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  -- it's the actual onboarding motion.I think that's what makes
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  the product easier to describe too.
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  If I'm the buyer, I don't need a ten-minute technical explanation.
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  I can say, "We connect our cloud account, it scans the environment, and it shows us
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  the biggest risks without installing agents."[responds
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  quickly] That sentence -- "without installing agents" -- is the specific
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  token that removes anxiety.
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  Because internal listeners immediately hear what is NOT required.
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  No endpoint deployment cycle.
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  No broad device-level change management.
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  No heavyweight implementation just to see whether the tool is useful.
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  And let's be honest, in enterprise buying,
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  "what is NOT required" can matter more than what's promised.
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  A lot more.
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  Reduced effort feels like reduced risk,
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  even before security teams compare detection depth or coverage detail.
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  So
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  the surprise is that the technical design changes the psychology of the
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  sale.
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  Yes -- psychology, workflow,
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  and sequencing.
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  It lowers the cost of curiosity.
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  A prospect can afford to say yes to an initial look.
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  Here's the real GTM
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  lesson.
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  If one stakeholder can begin the process alone -- or close to alone --
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  you've already improved your odds before the formal evaluation starts.
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  That's huge.
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  Because the enemy in early-stage selling is not competition first.
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  It's internal inertia. Internal inertia over external competition
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  -- that's a strong claim.
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  Why do you put it that way?
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  Because most deals don't die after a dramatic
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  vendor showdown.
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  They die in silence.
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  Nobody wants to own a risky rollout.
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  Nobody wants to trigger a cross-team project too early.
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  If your entry point requires security,
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  infrastructure, endpoint, procurement,
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  and compliance all in week one...
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  you've built your own resistance.And Orca's motion
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  shifts
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  that entry point.
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  Instead of asking the account to commit to a broad implementation,
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  it allows an initial evaluator -- maybe a cloud security lead,
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  maybe someone in infrastructure security -- to start with a contained
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  action.
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  That containment matters.
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  It reduces political exposure for the champion.
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  Political exposure --
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  that's the phrase.
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  Because a champion isn't just asking,
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  "Will this work?" They're asking,
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  "If I bring this in, how painful does this become for me internally?"Correct.
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  And if the internal explanation fits in one sentence,
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  first meetings get easier.
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  "It's agentless cloud security.
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  We connect the account and see prioritized risk."
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  That's simple enough to repeat upward to a director,
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  sideways to DevOps, or into a procurement pre-call without distortion.
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  One sentence is not a branding nicety.
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  It's a buying mechanic.
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  If the buyer can't re-sell your value internally in one clean line,
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  your deal slows down.
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  Period.
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  And the cleaner that sentence,
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  the easier the first meeting with a second team,
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  right?
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  Because now you're not re-educating from scratch.
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  Right.
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  The message survives handoff.
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  That's rare.
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  In many B2B categories, every internal handoff corrupts the original
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  value proposition.
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  Here, the phrase "no agents" preserves the entry logic across teams because
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  it's operationally concrete.This is where it connects directly
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  to how we think at MATCH B2B.
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  Easier start.
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  Lower perceived risk.
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  Faster decision.
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  Clearer expansion path.
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  That's the architecture.
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  Not just "nice UX." Revenue architecture.
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  Let's unpack the expansion path,
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  because that's where a lot of companies get sloppy.
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  They win a small foothold and then...
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  kind of hope the account grows.
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  Exactly.
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  Hope is not a land-and-expand strategy.
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  The reason this motion can expand is that the first value is visible
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  and shareable.
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  Once one team sees prioritized cloud risk,
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  adjacent teams have a reason to engage.
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  Security operations may care.
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  Cloud infrastructure may care.
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  Identity owners may care.
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  Compliance stakeholders may care.
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  The initial scan creates internal evidence,
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  not just vendor claims.
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  And evidence travels.
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  That's the key.
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  If the first footprint produces something a champion can bring into another
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  conversation -- "here are the risks we found, here is what matters first"
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  -- expansion becomes a logical next step,
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  not a forced upsell.So land-and-expand works better when the
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  land is diagnostic, not just contractual?Yes,
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  that's a good way to put it.
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  The initial motion functions as a proof layer.
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  It demonstrates relevance with the buyer's own environment.
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  That lowers skepticism in the next conversation because the account is
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  no longer discussing abstract platform capability.
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  It's discussing discovered conditions inside its own cloud setup.
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  And
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  commercially, that's powerful because the conversation shifts from "Should we
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  evaluate this vendor?"
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  to "What do we do with what we now know?" Those are very different
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  meetings.
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  The second one is a much better meeting.
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  A much better meeting.
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  And that's the lesson founders should steal.
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  Don't obsess only over your big differentiated feature.
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  Ask a harder question: does that feature make it easier for one person
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  to start, easier for that person to explain,
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  and easier for the account to expand logically after first value?
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  Because
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  if the answer is no, then even a strong product may enter the market through
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  a weak doorway.And a weak doorway is expensive.
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  That's the part people feel too late.
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  Exactly.
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  Build the doorway first.
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  Then earn the building.
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  Thanks for listening.