I am always pondering the difference between serial founders and folks working high up in corporates. Both are smart people and it is stupid to try and quantify smartness levels of two.
But I think one key difference between founders and non-founders is that founders find it difficult to work on stuff they don't already have a context to.
For example, you hear all the time of a top VP at a corporate being put in charge of another dept. to rescue it almost as a robot. Whereas a serial founder would find it difficult to just drop everything he has been doing until today and move to something else because folks higher up said so.
Going back to NetFlix and Blockbuster, I think it just shows that the future isn't so much in coming out with scientifically earth shattering ideas but rather bettering something that already exists.
But I think one key difference between founders and non-founders is that founders find it difficult to work on stuff they don't already have a context to.
For example, you hear all the time of a top VP at a corporate being put in charge of another dept. to rescue it almost as a robot. Whereas a serial founder would find it difficult to just drop everything he has been doing until today and move to something else because folks higher up said so.
Going back to NetFlix and Blockbuster, I think it just shows that the future isn't so much in coming out with scientifically earth shattering ideas but rather bettering something that already exists.