> Theres this thing called first to market advantage. The idea is that while your competitors are trying to clone your product, you are busy taking user feedback and making your product better, so by the time there is a clone of your product on the market, it is already obsolete. When people who actually know what they are doing talk about executing the best, this is what they are referring to.
Adam Grant argues in his recent Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World that the first-mover advantage might not be an advantage at all. A claim which he substantiates citing research such as this. You might want to check it out before blindly trusting the old adage.
Also, calling OP an idiot does not advance your case.