> e.g. He was supposedly an idiot for selling books online. By whom? Everyone I know who first used Amazon back in the 90s thought it was a great idea. I thin

> e.g. He was supposedly an idiot for selling books online. By whom? Everyone I know who first used Amazon back in the 90s thought it was a great idea. I think it's weird how we've fetishized the idea that "everyone else thought that business plan was crazy except for the visionary founders." If anything, I'd argue these founders are "geniuses" because they executed better than anyone else at the time, not that everyone else thought the idea was crazy.