actually me way back in high school. i had heard about bitcoin and went “ooh what an interesting way to make money” set up the miner and opened a wallet and everything, never mined and forgot about it. fast forward to the crypto boom 10 years later and i was sad
How about “Ooo, that’s a good idea” “oh, someone else thought of that thirty years ago and it went nowhere”
Naw, even worse is thinking of something, creating a prototype, using one of the patent help services and not hearing anything back until a few years later when you see a commercial for your idea.
My team and I built an automated restaurant management/ordering system that used touch screens as my senior project in college, way before they were a big thing (we put lcds into a table and used one of those things you put over the screen to make them touchable).
After college, none of us continued working on it.
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.
