I must have worded that poorly. Nope, I don't think the idea has anything to do with it. It's the scaling. You can have old, boring, been-there-done-that ideas

I must have worded that poorly. Nope, I don't think the idea has anything to do with it. It's the scaling. You can have old, boring, been-there-done-that ideas and have a great startup: as long as you can scale. In fact, I think it works the other way -- the more boring and mundane your idea, as long as it can scale, the easier it probably is to execute. Lots of folks want to make the next Twitter. Very few folks want to help plumbers find the right hex nut when fixing antique toilets (or something like that)