To create any successful business, you need (among other things) a great idea and a great team. But what is more important? This is a question that has been on the forefront of business news recently.
Anyone who saw the movie “The Social Network” knows exactly what I am talking about. Would Facebook be Facebook without Mark Zuckerburg? Had Mark teamed up with the Winkelvoss twins, would it be nearly as successful? They had a great idea for a website, but Zuckerburg saw the true nature of the idea and the potential it had to change the way the world communicates.
Would the Winklevoss twins realized what they had? Would they have been gutsy enough to turn down $1billion from Yahoo? $15 billion from Microsoft? Would they have been smart enough to not generate ad-revenue immediately? Would they have jumped-the-gun with opening up the site to those without ".edu" email addresses? Would they have created just another college themed myspace?
What do you guys think? What is more important… the jockey or the horse?
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