Some of the world’s biggest companies started with ideas that sounded... well, kind of ridiculous.

Twitter? Born as a side project inside a failing podcasting company. The goal? Let people share what they were doing in 140 characters or less. Revolutionary or just a glorified status update? Depends on how you look at it — but it sure escalated quickly.

Airbnb? That was just two guys renting out air mattresses in their living room during a sold-out conference. It literally had “air bed” in the name. Now it’s a multi-billion dollar company that changed how the world travels (and annoyed every hotel chain along the way).

These weren’t polished ideas backed by market research and glossy pitch decks. They were scrappy, borderline silly solutions to real problems — and they worked.

Moral of the story?
If your idea sounds a little weird, a little niche, or maybe even like a joke... you're probably onto something.

Because the line between “that’ll never work” and “next unicorn” is thinner than you think.