“Competitive Arbitrage” — @CedricChin
Why this is in the vault
Members-only piece on competitive arbitrage as a business strategy — finding inefficiencies between markets/customer-segments and exploiting them. Adjacent to RDCO’s positioning bet.
The core argument
Members-only piece on competitive arbitrage as business strategy. Find inefficiencies between markets/customer-segments/knowledge-domains and exploit them. The opportunity tends to live where two formerly separate domains begin to overlap — and where the operators in each domain don’t yet recognise the other’s expertise as relevant.
Mapping against Ray Data Co
RDCO’s bet IS a competitive arbitrage: enterprise data teams know they need agents but their internal AI teams don’t have data-pipeline tacit knowledge, while AI-native consultancies don’t have data-team operational experience. We sit in that gap. This piece names the strategic shape of that bet.
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Source: Competitive Arbitrage by Cedric Chin (Commoncog). 2436 words. Filed 2026-04-19 as part of Start-Here + Business-Expertise-Triad backfill cohort.