It seems that you're relating moral judgments ("right" or "wrong") with the level of success a company achieves. A company's success is not a moral question. A

It seems that you're relating moral judgments ("right" or "wrong") with the level of success a company achieves. A company's success is not a moral question. A company that correctly identifies a trend and scales is no more "right" than a company that correctly identifies a trend and does not scale. So someone being "too early" does not have much of anything to do with how right or wrong they are. Rather, you're talking about how being "too early" relates to the probability that you build a successful business. But what's challenging with that line of thinking is that how you evaluate the "success" of your business is relative to your goals and reference points. If I'm "early" and build a $2M company that I'm happy with, it doesn't mean I'm a failure even if I could have built a $100M business down the road. I'm happy with the $2M, or maybe I'm happy with trying to start a business that failed. It depends on the person. Finally, the success of a business is a combination of many variables, not just the timing of when you started it. There are plenty of examples of people who started businesses at the perfect time, but that simply didn't have the combination of factors required to build a successful business.