Borrowed Ground: Why the Best Companies Win on Foundations They Don’t Own

Description

For a century, strategy taught one lesson: build a moat, own something rivals can’t copy, defend it. The best companies of our age do the opposite. They build on foundations anyone can use public payment rails, open-source code, cheap cloud, freely available AI ground they don’t own and never could. Drawing on companies from Bengaluru to San Francisco, and the failures standing on the very same ground, Dr. Milan Patel reveals a new logic of advantage for a world of scarce capital and shared infrastructure. When everyone stands on the same ground, what you build on it becomes everything.