A short talk arguing that ideas cannot be owned or protected; value comes from execution. Speaker cites social networks (Friendster, MySpace, Facebook) to show that Facebook succeeded by executing the social-network idea better—clean early design, exclusivity (college rollout), and scalability—so implementation, not originality, drives success.
Here's the hard truth. You can't own an idea. Ideas themselves can't be trademarked or copyrighted. You can only own how it's executed. For example, Facebook wasn't the first social network. There was Friendster, there was MySpace. They all came before Facebook. The difference is Facebook executed the idea of a social network better. They focused on clean design exclusivity in the beginning with only college campuses, and then they expanded beyond that. They focused on scalability. The idea wasn't unique, but the implementation of the idea was game changing. Keep this in in mind. The success you want so bad isn't about having a unique idea, it's about executing on that idea better than anyone else.
