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> Your idea is not valuable, at all. All value is in the execution. Then why did Amazon patent the concept of a drone that will fly to your car and recharge it
by swamp40 9y ago
> Your idea is not valuable, at all. All value is in the execution.
Then why did Amazon patent the concept of a drone that will fly to your car and recharge it?
- TheSithMaster 9y agoBecause one day that idea could turn into a product that is valuable.
- _jomo 9y agoTo prevent others from executing it better than them.
- brucephillips 9y agoWithout the idea, there would be nothing to execute on.
- mortenjorck 9y agoIdeas are not valuable. A stable of patents backed up with a team of IP lawyers is.
- psyc 9y agoBecause patents are valuable. Specifically, blocking others from executing.
- valuearb 9y agoAnd because knowing patents are valuable, Amazon will freely file for far more than they need, and employees will be rewarded for coming up with them even if they are dumb. This specific patent is likely the second in spades.
- brucephillips 9y agoPatents first require an idea to be patented, so if patents are valuable, ideas are valuable.
- protopete 9y agoWhy would I want Amazon charging their drones from my car?
- jamesrcole 9y agoI'm also somewhat sceptical of the blanket "ideas are never valuable" statement. Surely there are situations where not many people are going to think of the idea and being first to move on it is very important ...such that both the idea and the execution are important. You can't execute well on something that you weren't able to come up with.
- valuearb 9y agoSure you can. Henry Ford didn't come up with the idea of the car, nor did he invent manufacturing by building many copies of the same identical thing in a factory. But he sure did execute doing both together well.