What Brad Feld thinks about ideas vs execution

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Brad Feld has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 4 Sept 2026

   Our readingThe early Web 2.0-era promise of universal API interoperability and user ownership of data and control never materialized.

   Their wordsI long for the halcyon days of early Web 2.0 when it was predicted that all APIs would work with everything and data and control would belong to the user. Oh well - that didn't happen.

   ↗Overwatch: One Home Automation Dashboard to Rule Them Allfeld.com 2nd of 2 in this piece

2. 4 weeks earlier

3. 9 Aug 2026

   Our readingThe ethical failure in using AI to write is publishing unread, unowned work, not using the tool itself.

   Their wordsThe transgression isn't using the machine. It's hitting a button, not reading what comes back, and publishing it under your name.

   ↗The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Oldfeld.com 2nd of 2 in this piece