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That’s sort of general problem with people regardless of industry who’ve drunk the startup coolaid … wrong way around, let’s say. The point of innovation is not to reinvent the wheel. Saying you are startuppy does not excuse you from actually learning about the field. One could even radically propose knowledge of field helps to find innovations. What one should avoid is saying ’no’ just because such a thing does not exist yet. If the thing exists, has a name like ’Big Bad Mistake’, you should at least acknowledge it. (Yeah yeah, rockets were impossible and Musk beat them but that happened via respect of existing art and extending it, not completely ignoring it).