by that token uber&#x27;s founders should have gone and worked as taxi drivers so they would understand that world, and airbnb&#x27;s founders should have opened a hotel.<p>both of the mentioned companies are totally disrupting entire industries and the world, solving people&#x27;s problems in transportation and in hospitality in ways the world never saw at scale before.<p>I would venture to say that your advice would result in these solutions not coming into existence: with respect, I think your suggestion is not only not necessary, but  doesn&#x27;t work and may prevent certain solutions from coming into existence.