[smcl]

Context: Rocket Internet is the name of the German company operated by the Samwer brothers, who have a reputation of cloning silicon valley's latest and greatest ideas for the German\EU market. Not technically doing anything illegal but certainly not held in the highest regard.

[getsat]

They clone successfully executed ideas, not any old idea someone has.

[billmalarky]

However they also consider their strength to be execution not innovation. That doesn't rule out ideas that seem like "obvious wins" but have yet to be tested.

Edit: Apparently in their mission statement they claim to only use proven ideas, but I still wouldn't do business with them regardless.

[icefox]

Why is it not held in high regard?