What is an idea really? If it's a one-liner like "a social network for college students" then sure, it's has little value. Give the same one-liner idea to diffe

What is an idea really? If it's a one-liner like "a social network for college students" then sure, it's has little value. Give the same one-liner idea to different people and the outcome will be completely different. But there is more to an idea than that, the founder usually has a much more refined understanding for how to make it work. For example, today most techies have a fairly good understanding of why Facebook took off, meaning we have as good or even better understanding than Zuckerberg had when he started out. So with this understanding, would we be able to recreate the success of Facebook if we were to rewind time? It would be a lot more likely. So ideas in the sense that you have an understanding for what to build and why, and how to make it work is far from worthless.