Before creating your own product, learn how to remix

Copying what’s been done before or imagining what’s next: which do you see as the most critical founder skill? Most people would probably go with the latter. But I actually go with the former, or a version of it I call – to borrow a term from the music industry – “remixing”.  If all original ideas could only ever be used by the person who conceived them, a ton of innovation would vanish from the market.