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Does anyone else hate the term "idea people". To me that implies someone thinks that having an idea and no skill to execute is a legitimate profession where pe
by ryguytilidie 15y ago
Does anyone else hate the term "idea people". To me that implies someone thinks that having an idea and no skill to execute is a legitimate profession where people should make money. I might be overreacting, but it feels like people see the VC cash flowing, have no discernible skills and think they deserve a payoff for a mediocre idea.
- natrius 15y agoI consider it a pejorative.
- its_so_on 15y agoThe term "idea man" is a pejorative, and as someone who appreciates what Google became from being a handful of servers running a novel set of algorithms as described here: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html (the original paper was actually longer) I appreciate idea men in a way no one who uses the term "idea man" does or can.