The clearest sign your contrarian idea has fully landed: someone in the room pitches it back to you as their own (and you let them). ❤️‍🔥

Amy Wilson and I are both former tech executives who spent years watching good ideas die in the wrong room before we figured out how to get them funded instead.

We are out this week but created a bonus segment. We broke down the 7-step method to getting a big idea to take hold:

1. Get convicted
2. Write it down — for yourself first
3. Listen before you sell
4. Find collaborative evidence
5. Let go of authorship
6. Play the long game
7. Yield the credit

Step 5 is the one most executives skip, and it's the one that decides whether the idea survives contact with the org chart.

When someone repeats your idea back to you, unprompted, like they thought of it first, that's adoption.

You won. 🏆