Lots of Overnight Tragedies, No Overnight Miracles
Almost all great ideas (really like 99%) are not overnight successes.
Not because of an idea itself, but because people change their behavior rather slowly if ever.
A category mistake—erroneously assigning to something a quality or action that is properly attributable only to things of another category—is behind the frequent, but deeply mistaken, conclusion that in this new, electronically enabled world everything can, and will, move much faster.[36] Information and connections do so, and so does the adoption
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
It is notable that during the early years of a new technology – the railway, for example, or the internet – far more entrepreneurs went broke than made fortunes.