> I know I am naive but I can't help but think that people just don't want to think outside the box. I've encountered this in my career and now I'm encountering

> I know I am naive but I can't help but think that people just don't want to think outside the box. I've encountered this in my career and now I'm encountering it in the entrepreneurship world. What am I doing wrong? Why am I so dumb to think I can just take something apart to its smallest bits and put it together in a better way? Remember that the people you are pitching to are paid to, well, rip apart every possible problem. But that doesn't make it a bad idea. Hacker News famously had the worst take ever when Dropbox was announced. Read what they thought of Dropbox - which would later become a multibillion-dollar company, and it might brighten your day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863