What John Bai thinks about ideas vs execution

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Designer at SpaceXAI in New York working on Grok Bot, and the first New York design hire at Cursor.

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1. 25 Aug 2026

   Our readingYou can build anything now, but not everything is worth building; what matters is whether ideas take a shape somebody else would want to use.

   Their wordswe're in a we're in a time where you can build anything, but not everything is worth building. It's much less about, you know, how many ideas you have, how clever your ideas are, but do they take the shape that somebody else would want to use

   ↗John Bai - The Grok Bot design journeyyoutube.com 18th of 20 in this recording