I&#x27;d have to agree. To add to your points though, I like to think of Ideas and Execution lying in a spectrum between Genius and Obvious.<p>You can take an obvious idea (a social network to connect friends circa 2004), add genius execution to it in terms of adoption and growth, and win.<p>You can take a genius idea (crunch every page in the web and spit out search results in seconds), keep the execution in terms of UI and experience really obvious and win.<p>You can even take an obvious idea, apply an obvious execution strategy to it, and steadily grow (or at least play a strong catch up).<p>The scary part is when you mix a genius idea with genius execution - and risk getting having brilliant app fly over the head.<p>IMHO bad things start to happen when we start falling blindly in love with our own intellect.