Very cool. Just too bad ideas don’t matter and execution is everything!
I wish the world has more people with technical chops and less “idea guys.” Knowledge of customer and ability to build the minimum viable product is worth more than 100k ideas.
I wish the world has more people with technical chops and less “idea guys.” Knowledge of customer and ability to build the minimum viable product is worth more than 100k ideas.
That's a real example from a meetup I went to the other day. Two solar engineers who were tired of drawing these solar plant plans and realized a computer would do it faster and better. They're killing it.
Many software engineers rely on domain experts to come along with good ideas to execute on. Maybe ideas matter immensely after all.
Which is to say, ideas matter a lot, but no one who subscribes to the saying has ever noticed that they're auto-rejecting bad and terrible ideas constantly, and have also never had a great idea.
That saying exists to deter procrastination, obsession with being first, being secret and other mistakes people make.
But ideas do matter. Google AdWords' bidding model was an idea (I think overture had the first quality implementation at scale). That idea was/is responsible for adding 0s to Google's as income.
“ The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.
The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.
That’s why I don’t want to hear people’s ideas.
I’m not interested until I see their execution. “
I’ve since heard this referenced and repeated by numerous successful entrepreneurs.
Let me know if you disagree.
There are plenty of good executioners out there who dont succeed because their idea or timing isnt good enough.
Good ideas give you something to strive for, something to think alongside i would say good ideas is the very reason a team execute well in most cases.