The New Moat
by Eitan Koter
221. Why TikTok Shoppers Still Buy on Amazon with Tom Cochrane
About this podcast
The moat that protected your tech company for the last decade is gone. Three things that used to create competitive advantage in tech have been commoditized by AI: information asymmetry, product differentiation, and attention. Buyers now know everything before they talk to anyone on your team. Anything you ship gets matched fast. And attention is so cheap that being seen stopped meaning anything. Whatever worked, stopped.
So what’s the new moat?
That’s the question this show digs into every episode. Through conversations with tech CEOs and investors building and backing companies right now, we explore what actually creates durable competitive advantage when the old rules no longer apply.
Each conversation is grounded in a real business. Not frameworks in the abstract. What’s working in their pipeline. How they sharpened their positioning when the market got crowded. Where they got pricing wrong and fixed it. How they rebuilt a growth team that wasn’t performing. The moat, when it exists, comes out of those details.
I’m Eitan Koter. Thirty years in tech, leading startups and public companies. Over a billion dollars sold, as founder, CEO, CMO, and CRO. The last twenty years as a CEO. I’ve raised capital, worked on M&A, and been part of a team that took a company to a Nasdaq IPO. Now I run Expanio and work directly with tech CEOs rebuilding their growth engine through The New Tech Growth Playbook.
New episode every week.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 221 episodes
- 221. Why TikTok Shoppers Still Buy on Amazon with Tom Cochrane · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 221Tom Cochrane is founder of Eleviam, a brand accelerator running more than forty CPG brands across Amazon, Walmart, and TikTok Shop. Before building the agency, he put nearly five…
- 220. How Humor Became a Product Strategy with Oded Friedland · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 220Oded Friedland founded Monkey Business in 1994 after graduating from Bezalel with a degree in industrial design. A former three time European kneeboard surfing champion, he built…
- 219. How To Fix Retail Shelves with Amit Chachek · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 219Amit Chachek spent two decades building award winning visual effects for brands like Walmart and Coke before founding WeR AR, an augmented reality company built to fix the…
- 218. How to Stop Losing Money on Amazon with Andrew Morgans · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 218Andrew Morgans is founder and CEO of Marknology, an Amazon brand accelerator in Kansas City. In fifteen years in e-commerce he has managed over two billion dollars in revenue…
- 217. How to Turn Data Chaos into Growth with Tim Shea · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 217Tim Shea is the founder and CEO of LatticeWork Insights, where he has spent a decade helping DTC and retail brands untangle data spread across dozens of disconnected platforms…
- 216: How Meta Ads Actually Target Now with Krista Karpan · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 216Krista Karpan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Milked Media, a performance marketing agency that has spent nearly a decade helping ecommerce brands scale through paid media, creative…
- 215. Why Passive Knee Braces Are Failing You with Adoram Leshem · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 215Adoram Leshem is the Chief Executive Officer of Nübrace, an orthopedic aids company he founded after years of knee pain from martial arts, hiking, and dirt biking left him…
- 214. AI Won't Fix a Broken Funnel ft. Jeremy Goldman · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 214Jeremy Goldman is VP Editorial & Insights at RETHINK Retail, a community platform supporting retailers, brand leaders, logistics practitioners, and AI specialists. Before joining…
- 213. Your Customer Data Is Lying To You ft. Deneke O'Reilly · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 213Deneke O'Reilly is the founder and principal of Reliq Strategy, bringing 20 years of customer data experience to retailers trying to build durable growth. He spent his career…
- 212. The Retention Playbook Most DTC Brands Ignore ft. Vira Sadlak · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 212Vira Sadlak is a Retention Marketing Strategist at Flowium, a retention-focused agency and Klaviyo Platinum Partner specializing in email, SMS, and lifecycle marketing for…
- 211. Stop Optimizing for Revenue. Optimize for Profit ft. Cem Atik · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 211Cem Atik is the co-founder and CMO of Harucon Ventures, a firm that acquires minority and majority equity stakes in e-commerce and SaaS businesses doing between one and ten…
- 210. Building Seven Figures Without Running a Single Ad ft. Kate Assaraf · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 210Kate Assaraf is the CEO and founder of dip sustainable, a plastic-free haircare brand she launched in 2021 that hit seven figures within 18 months without running a single paid…
- 209. The M&A Window You Can’t Afford to Miss ft. Ilya Mikin · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 209Ilya Mikin is Vice President of Technology M&A at Corum Group, one of the leading technology M&A advisory firms globally. His background spans more than two decades across…
- 208. Why Most Brands Fail at Cross-Border E-Commerce ft. Carol Shih · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 208In this episode of Commerce Untold, host Eitan Koter sits down with Carol Shih, founder of Qode Space, a boutique Shopify agency, and Doraemi, a cross-border consultancy helping…
- 207. The 80/20 Rule That Saves Your Business ft. Tarkan Salar · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 207Eitan Koter sits down with Tarkan Salar, founder of Smart Concepts and the consultancy Can't Stop Me, who has spent 30 years working with brands like Louis Vuitton, Zara and…
- 206. Why Your 3PL Is Killing Your Business ft. Leo Rodriguez · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 206Host, Eitan Koter is joined by Leo Rodriguez, Vice President at River Plate Inc., a fulfillment company with over 33 years of experience helping brands ship smarter. River Plate…
- 205. Your Ads Are Failing And Here’s Why ft. Pamela Wagner · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 205In this episode of Commerce Untold, Eitan Koter sits down with Pamela Wagner, Founder and CEO of Ajala Digital, a Google Partner agency that has helped thousands of businesses…
- 204. Smarter Ads That Profit ft. Matt Raminick · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 204Eitan Koter is joined by Matt Raminick, Founder and CEO of Sunnyside, to talk about what’s really going on behind performance marketing numbers. They start with a simple idea…
- 203. Why Paid Ads Are Breaking Your Business ft. Adam Callinan · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 203There’s a point where more revenue doesn’t mean more profit. And that’s where things start to break. In this episode, Eitan Koter is joined by Adam Callinan, founder of Pentane…
- 202. Why TikTok Beats Instagram for Sales ft. Iñigo Rivero · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 202Eitan Koter is joined by Iñigo Rivero, co-founder and managing director at House of Marketers, a global TikTok Marketing Agency. They talk about how the platform has shifted over…







