[ccc3]

He concludes his post by saying:

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

The only way that's true is if you consider success to be binary. Either you succeed or you fail. But level of success is important in terms of economic value and it is demonstrable that the idea is a factor in level of success.

[pwhelan]

Hyperbole is a literary tool to emphasize a point and should be put in context knowing this.

[zeynel1]

And also to execute you need to have an idea. Idea and execution are not independent. Idea has value by definition because it is the starting point.