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It's more like 90/10. 90% execution and 10% idea. And actually almost all successful startups didn't have "original" ideas:

- google wasn't the first search engine

- facebook wasn't the first social network

- tesla wasn't the first electric car

- ChatGPT wasn't the first chat bot





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