> Your friend’s terrible prototype is worth 100x more than your great idea No, something that exists and consumes space/resources/mindshare basically has negat

> Your friend’s terrible prototype is worth 100x more than your great idea No, something that exists and consumes space/resources/mindshare basically has negative value until proven otherwise. It has all sorts of misguided hangups and ideas attached to it which might make it a worse starting point than a clean slate. Otherwise, it's true that almost all ideas are worthless.