My response is more along the lines of "in the case of almost all of the major tech industry successes you can think of, there existed diminishing returns to te

My response is more along the lines of "in the case of almost all of the major tech industry successes you can think of, there existed diminishing returns to technical brilliance". Strategy, execution, and product design are so much more essential at the outset of any venture that isn't dealing with significant technical complexity. It doesn't take a genius to learn full-stack development. It's not even too difficult these days to pick up enough stats and ML to do some serious damage on the data science side of things. Innovation is instead about having a system structured in a way that encourages and rewards risktaking (in expectation).