The elephant down the hall is that if Noah put the job board on his own personal web-site - it was a $100 business, not a $1,000,000 one. The spolsky/fc brand

The elephant down the hall is that if Noah put the job board on his own personal web-site - it was a $100 business, not a $1,000,000 one. The spolsky/fc brand is what made it valuable - and Noah had nothing to do with that. Isn't one of the HN mantra's that it's execution not idea that's valuable?