fast follower

noun

1. a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies

Example Sentences

After the crowd was finished applauding Fils-Amié for his dunk — yes, really — he continued, saying that Meta has “either acquired really interesting things, like Oculus, like Instagram, or they’ve been a fast follower of other people’s ideas.”

From The Verge

To maintain economic growth, the nation has sought to become a ‘first mover’, instead of simply a ‘fast follower’ — rhetoric embraced by the current liberal president, Moon Jae-in, and his predecessor, the conservative Park Geun-hye.

From Nature

Some suspect it will be initiatives such as these that do most to move South Korea away from the label ‘fast follower’.

From Nature

“It’s really hard with half the human resource to also innovate. So if... you’re limited by the amount of people you have, then you’ve got to be a fast follower.”

From Reuters

“Right now I would characterize it as a situation where if you want to be a fast follower, then you’re still a fast follower,” said James Whitelaw, spokesman for the reinsurance giant Transatlantic Reinsurance Co.

From Scientific American