---
id: "quote-first-mover-training"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ Value Creation Is Not Value Capture"]
tags: ["first-mover", "machine-learning"]
related: ["concept-ai-first-mover-disadvantage", "claim-early-movers-train-competitors"]
speakers: ["Jay B. Barney", "Martin Reeves"]
quote: "Because gen AI uses constantly updated data, your competitors benefit not only from their own efforts to advance but also from your prior efforts to do so."
sources: ["spine"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-spine"
originDay: 1
articleStem: "hbr-cl-96-ai-no-sustainable-advantage"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2024/09/ai-wont-give-you-a-new-sustainable-advantage"
sourceTitle: "AI Won’t Give You a New Sustainable Advantage"
---
# First Movers Train Competitors

> "Because gen AI uses constantly updated data, your competitors benefit not only from their own efforts to advance but also from your prior efforts to do so."
> — [[entity-jay-b-barney]] & [[entity-martin-reeves]]

The verbatim source for the first-mover-disadvantage mechanism ([[concept-ai-first-mover-disadvantage]]) and [[claim-early-movers-train-competitors]]; drives the reversal in [[contrarian-first-mover-penalty]].