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The Sameness Trap: Why Industries Converge and Founders Build Copycats
Nathan Reardon and Pat Villaceran open The Innovation Philosophie Podcast by asking why entire industries converge on the same ideas and why smart founders end up building copycats. Pat Villaceran separates genuine innovation from optimisation and argues that founders must understand what exists before they can create what does not. The episode closes with a challenge: how should a podcast itself avoid the sameness trap?
Chapters
00:00 Intro: the sameness trap
05:35 What counts as a brand-new idea
07:16 Is the smart car innovation or an upgrade?
09:45 Can you become more innovative partway…
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