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It’s a nice framework for many ideas I suppose, but there too many examples of “non-obvious” “stupid ideas” with no market or problem to solve that eventually succeed. And plenty of successes that were not innovative but had great execution.

Like most things in life timing is everything and we only know the right timing and “ideas” in hindsight.



Can you give some examples of said stupid ideas?


Letting strangers sleep in your empty rooms?

I grew up in a high-crime city in the US which shaped my perception of the world, thus AirBnB sounded like madness to me when I first heard of it.




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