My take on this (I'm actually deciding what the fuck I'm going to do for my startup right now)is that Paul refers to one thing. Big ideas come with a lot of cri

My take on this (I'm actually deciding what the fuck I'm going to do for my startup right now)is that Paul refers to one thing. Big ideas come with a lot of criticism. People will call you crazy and what not. Thus, they seem like bad ideas to most because most people are afraid of ridicule and failure. Imagine if I woke up one day, and said "I'm going to take down Google." Everybody on HN would laugh histerically. To most of you, it would seem like a bad idea. But Google is not as big and mighty as it appears. Anyone in here can build something that will compete with it (in terms of software). The problem lies in being stupid enough to believe that you can do it. I thought about taking on Google, but my passion seems to lie outside of search. I'm not ruling it out though.