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Ideas are worthless without execution. Patents don't matter because competitors won't act on your secrets anyway. Focus on building, not protecting or pitching.

Ideas are worthless without execution. Patents don't matter because competitors won't act on your secrets anyway. Focus on building, not protecting or pitching.
An idea is like an asshole. Everyone has one. Ideas don't mean anything. So you really have to execute. It's really execution on the idea that has value. Entrepreneurs get kind of hung up on, oh, I need to get a patent and all that. One of the things you have to understand is you can go to your most direct competitors. You can tell them all your trade secrets. They will listen to you really carefully and they will not change behavior. Okay? So you don't need patents for anything. The ideas don't mean anything. It's really the execution.