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I appreciate the sentiment, but at the same time, most ideas are worthless. Even if you had knowledge of some successful system of today, went to an alternate universe that lacked it, and described it to them in detail, the team would still screw it up. It's not their baby. They need a leader who gets it, not just an idea dump.

Recall the story of Bezos and his challenge to let customers order from Amazon "with a single click". His team's first prototype required twelve clicks. He sent them back to work, and the second prototype required two clicks. It's not a question of complexity, because ideas don't get any simpler than that.