The only reason people pushed this whole "execution is everything" meme is that there were far too many very lazy, uninformed people who thought that their vagu

The only reason people pushed this whole "execution is everything" meme is that there were far too many very lazy, uninformed people who thought that their vague "brilliant idea" could make them millions on its own without any real effort on their part.[0] Saying that execution is what matters was the easiest way to get these jokesters out of the room. Now the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction and you have a lot of really silly startups run by intelligent people who were told by every high status person in the valley that ideas don't matter. Implicitly, there's an empirical claim being made on both sides here, either good ideas primarily drive success or good execution. If you had a formal way to measure both, you could just run the numbers and tell fairly easily. We should always be striving to take the guesswork and tea leaf reading out of things. [0]: And there still are.