And once again, you are on your own. Wandering around the walk of life where it is not enough to be right, and corroborating ideas that are already proven correct is no longer trending. A new era has come, and it has brought new challenges with it: coming up with things that no one else has realized yet.
"Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? No...? Well, if everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think what you're told.” - Paul Graham.
Conventional-minded people greatly outnumber independent-minded ones... but it is not a numbers game, and luckily you don't have to spend all your time with independent-minded people. It is bittersweet, but if it is truly a passion project, the founder's dilemma should contemplate the mental and emotional burden of forcing a team to bring an idea to fruition. Unfortunately, it is not until you get closer to the destination that you start to realize that the finish line is getting more blurry.
At this point, would you trust someone who has never made a mistake? How should we assess the performance and attitudes of someone who has never made any mistake? Is that even feasible? Possible?