I think you can found a company humbly. If you're trying to enter an already-crowded space, sure, you have to believe that you're better than the competition.

I think you can found a company humbly. If you're trying to enter an already-crowded space, sure, you have to believe that you're better than the competition. But if you're the first to enter a space, it pays to be humble, because you don't even know what people want yet. Lack of humility is what keeps businesses on paths that don't attract users, or even actively repel users. You have to be able to dump your hypotheses once they've been shown to be incorrect.