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Ideas are completely overrated. They’re rarely right. What actually matters is the problem and the number of reps you get talking to customers and building for those problems. In those reps, ideas evolve fast. They turn into insights, and those insights turn into the real solutions. The “idea fallacy” assumes your very first thought is correct and won’t change. But that’s never how anything great gets built. When I got into commerce, I focused on one core problem: merchants needed better software to start and scale their businesses. This was before anyone had built in the Shopify ecosystem. So I focused there and within a year, I launched seven different Shopify apps tackling different angles of that problem. Eventually, I landed on subscriptions. And honestly, I thought it was a terrible idea at the time. “Subscribe & save” had just launched, and the idea that people would pay shipping for small consumables instead of going to the store sounded crazy. But I wasn’t married to the idea, I was committed to solving the problem. So I built it out in a month just to see if it worked. That mindset, not being attached to any one idea, gave me the freedom to keep iterating until I found the thing that hit.