Andrew Parker comments

Data is the new defensibility. Many previous forms of defensibility have melted away: patents are completely disrespected and too costly to enforce, technology and algorithms can be reverse engineered by 2 students with a case of Raman and Red Bull in a month, many companies are using open source technology that’s completely commodity, and developing a web service is so capital efficient that out-fundraising your competition is nothing more than a distraction.

Further he writes

I guess not, like patents and algorithms data defensibility is also coming to an end. One of the major reason for this falling is data and information silos curbing the innovation across all levels. Current capital markets turbulence and dry pharmaceutical pipelines are perfect examples how data and information privacy is no more safe. Due to adventures of new high throughput technologies in experimental science now anyone can generate huge amount of data in small time, the volume of data is exceeding the rate at which it needs to be analyzed shifting the whole focus from data isolation to data integration. Questions are relatively constant, data and sources are changing, the success of organization now depends on how quickly and how well they can achieve data integration from all available sources.