Justin James
Jul 15, 2022

Ideas are so common/plentiful. They aren't what's valuable. What's valuable is the ability to execute. A ton of that is the technical skill to implement which is why technical co-founders (CTO) are so valuable. A lot of that is operations stuff (CEO, COO, CFO work). The rest is sales and marketing (CRO, CMO).

The idea itself almost doesn't matter. None of what's big was a first mover. None of it. First movers die. It's the third, fourth generation companies that say "where did those ideas fail?" and fix that which make it big. How many search engines came and went before Google? How many social networks before MySpace, and then Facebook? Etc.

No idea is worth me giving up a minute of my time for... but a great team of CEO/COO/CFO and CRO/CMO 100% is.

J.Ja

Justin James
Justin James

Written by Justin James

OutSystems MVP & longtime technical writer

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