Why does it feel like all of the most successful businesses were started from dumb ideas?

I love listening to the podcast, how I built this with Guy Raz.

And Guy has spent years building up a big enough reputation to bring

on some really cool guests, founders of big restaurant chains, CPG brands, and other successful

business owners. And I've listened to dozens of his episodes. And for some reason, it feels like

all of the most successful businesses were started with some

sort of dumb idea.

Or maybe dumb idea is a bad term to use.

Maybe a better way to put it is these people started businesses or launched products

that a lot of their peers and people that they trusted or respected said would never work. I also recently just

finished reading the book Shoe Dog, the story of Phil Knight and Nike, and over and over in that

story are moments of this is not going to work. What are we doing? Why are we competing against these

big dogs in the shoe running know, shoe running space?

And you definitely don't need to read the book to understand how successful Nike is as a business now.

I think what it all comes down to when you look at all of these successful businesses,

and they don't just need to be physical goods, but they could be product, services, apps, software,

you know, services, any type of endeavor, really.

The success is really just built on perseverance, honestly.

In many cases, these products and brands aren't that revolutionary.

I'd like to say, yeah, most of them, you know, referring to these episodes from how I built this,

have some element of a uniqueness, whether it's, you know, a unique branding of bottled or canned

water if you're liquid death, or a unique angle of, you know, focusing on the environment

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