Clubhouse Clones, Incoming!

When Paul, Graham wrote his first essays, the canonical advice for startups was: don't worry about your competitors coming along and copying you. Don't worry about what if some big company like Google comes along and copies my product, because there's so many reasons why start ups die, and that was almost never the case. I think the first example that broke that rule was Justin Kan’s Calendar start up, but it was basically an early version of Google Calendar which may or may not have been a copy. It was probably just a similar product that was already in development before they launch Kiko, but I'd say for at least a decade after those essays came out, that was really solid advice. You almost never saw a product copied by a competitor out right. The first time..