Has this ever happened to you? You don a black turtleneck sweater, gather your creative energies and birth an idea so incredible that you know for certain that the world will never be the same. And then your friend -who by the way; is not a lawyer – comes up to you and has the audacity to claim that your idea is essentially crime with extra steps.
What a wet blanket.
Picture this; a man in your neighbourhood has purchased the last bottle of kombucha that you liked. You feel strongly that you both want and deserve that bottle more than your fellow neighbour. Wouldn’t it be just grand to be able to pick up your phone, tap a few buttons and have that bottle delivered right to your doorstep? Well, with the app; ‘Get it Now’, you can hire someone to take that bottle by force and deliver it to you, right to your doorstep.
That was the brilliant idea that one young entrepreneur had. Unfortunately for him, jealous critics reared their heads and bashed the budding genius’ visionary scheme. Some have gone so far as to call the idea, ‘easily accessible organized crime,’ or ‘a disaster straight from conception’.
It was only when he had already developed the app & had a few hundred users did he realize – through police involvement – that he may have created something somewhat illegal.
Even more unfortunate; this is far from the first instance of the law getting in the way of innovation.
Two months prior to ‘Get it Now’, he had developed a service that would essentially cut out pharmacists from the medicine to patient journey. But, yet again, there was heavy push back against this revolutionary creation. A lot of people seemed to believe it would quite possibly fuel addiction so he gutted that idea.
It appears as though the one thing standing in his way to a billion dollars is the law. And/or morality.
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