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From electric vehicles to quick commerce, finance to retail, India continues to be a market where late movers can always catch up.

October is a busy month for all of us financial journalists. It coincides with the quarterly earnings season of companies. Quite often, you and I are caught up in the minutiae of individual enterprises, which is fascinating, but today I’d like to draw you out a little, to look at the last earnings season from some distance.
If you look at the quarterly results of companies like Jio Financial Services, Swiggy, Paytm, Ola Electric, among others, you will begin to notice how the late-mover advantage has been a constant, underlying theme playing out across these new-age companies. I, myself, was …