You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

A related advantage of mission oriented ideas, is that you yourself will be dedicated to them.

Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.