As much as I dislike facebook and Zuckerberg, I like his quote: "If you had invented facebook, you would have invented facebook."

So you figured out how to build a cold fusion reactor. If you had done that you would have built a cold fusion reactor.

If one looked only at sweat equity, I'd wager that the creation and invention of the product in your average million-dollar-revenue company is dwarfed by everything else that needs to be done.