>Let’s say your friend is obsessed with building a new search-engine. When you ask them why do they believe they can do better than Google, you are literally te

>Let’s say your friend is obsessed with building a new search-engine. When you ask them why do they believe they can do better than Google, you are literally telling them that they shouldn’t be doing this since if it was ‘correct’ or possible or profitable, then Google would have already done that. This is bad. I don't think the author is really thinking about what that question means. If you say you're building a search engine and I ask you why you can do better than Google it's because I want to know why you're going to do better than Google. Clearly if you're building a search engine then you have some idea of what you're going to do better than google. And if not.... well, that's pretty ballsy. Fine, maybe you just think it's an underserved market (it is!), but founders should have an idea of why they will beat the competition, and asking the question isn't dismissive, it's inquisitive.