&gt; &quot;Improve compression technology X so that live video is technically feasible sooner than expected&quot;...now that&#x27;s a great idea.<p>That&#x27;s exactly what I did. But technology by itself does not make money, it needs packaging and marketing.<p>So such an idea is deceptively simple and it is the <i>packaging</i> of that idea in some concept that makes it valuable. Think of it as everybody in the world saying &#x27;x&#x27; is impossible, and then you prove &#x27;x&#x27; is indeed possible, and once that&#x27;s proven there are many ways of capturing the value of that idea. Giving people the opportunity to be broadcasters was my way of trying to capture that value.<p>Great ideas and good ideas differ usually only by hindsight.