More commonly it goes “I thought of that, my friends thought of that, some dude I met at a bus stop thought of that, but none of us had access to 100M in venture capital to do anything about it. But the guy that did is a business genius and we all owe them our respect and admiration.”

My worst feeling is “I tried that two years ago but couldn’t get enough people interested, so I dropped it…”

Personally I think the feeling of wet socks trumps both of these, but we’re all different.

I had the idea for WeWork years before Adam ever bought his first office. But I don’t have the type of personality to inspire a cult, and my father-in-law didn’t gift us a million dollars when I got married.

How about “Ooo, that’s a good idea” “oh, someone else thought of that thirty years ago and it went nowhere”