Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I've seen a lot of those over the years.

Yeah, make sure it sinks in and you still think it's a good idea.

At least one night of sleep.

Yeah, look, I think the main thing is to just solve a problem.

And what tends to happen is when you go to solve a problem, particularly if it's a hard problem, you find some other problem that's more important.

I mean, and this is well known in scientific discovery, right?

Like,

Penicillin was like an accident.

They weren't trying to solve that one.

It just kind of rolled off of the side.

And then, by the way, like meta was an accident.

He was building Hot or Not.

And, you know, he kind of stumbled into like this much bigger idea.

And, you know, my friend Drew at Dropbox, you know, he was like literally tired of

having USB where he'd have to move his presentation from one thing to another.

He was just solving a problem for himself.

So I think the best way to come on a good, a really important idea is to go try and solve something.

Not necessarily build a company, just try and solve a problem.

And then in that problem, if it's like a problem that you have, then that means it's probably real.

And then in solving it, you'll probably or you'll likely find something much bigger.