Pat Dorsey’s Moats Mindmapped

/ February 12, 2015

Few months back I mind mapped Charlie Munger’s psychology of human misjudgment. You can take a look at it here. Mind maps are really powerful as it organizes information visually and it aids the associative nature of human brain. In this post I have mind mapped four different types of moats which Pat Dorsey talks about in his fantastic book The Little Book That Builds Wealth. Recently he gave a talk about moats at Google. It’s simply the best and I highly recommend watching it.

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Few things to note before you look at the mind maps (1) In order to understand the mind maps you should have read Pat Dorsey’s book (2) Click on the mind map (3) Enlarge the mind map to view it clearly (4) Read them in clockwise direction (5) Repeat several times (6) When you study a business come back to this and see which moat(s) applies to your business.

1. Intangible Assets

IntangibleAssets

2. Switching Costs

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3. Network Effects

NetworkEffects

4. Cost Advantages

CostAdvantagesNonScale
CostAdvantagesScale

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15 thoughts on “Pat Dorsey’s Moats Mindmapped”

  1. This is very good Mr. Jana. You’ve put in a lot of time in this. It shows.
    Keep enlightening us with your work.
    Best of luck.
    Regards

  2. Dear Jana,

    Wonderful post. Thanks for sharing and helping us to become a sensible and better investor.

    With regards,
    Swami

  3. Superb Jana !! Just last month I read this book. And now I have this to wonderful post to refresh and refer so easily.

  6. wonderful job jana…. I propose to work all together to look for new companies for competitive advantages… let me know your opinion about this proposal

  7. THIS IS AMAZING jana. i am a mindmap fan myself and do a lot of it. happy to see a fellow finance professional into it.

  8. Great – work i red this book last week! and u captured the details exactly in the drawings using mind mapping. I read almost 2 books a week do you have list of books which you keep track for the all different area’s to have mental models mapping on different areas!

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