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Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
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Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly

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    Brilliant thinking is rare. Courage to state unpopular truths is rarer.
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    The Empire State Building was started in 1929 and finished in 1931, during the Great Depression.
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    Ask yourself: What valuable company is nobody building? Every correct answer is necessarily a secret.
  4. @business
    Thiel’s Law is brutal: a startup damaged at its foundation cannot be repaired through later improvements.
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    Superior sales and distribution can create a monopoly without product differentiation. A superior product cannot rescue nonexistent distribution.
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    What important truth do very few people agree with you on? Your company may be hiding inside it.
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    A company does not have a culture. The company itself is a culture.
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    At 11, Howard Hughes built Houston's first radio transmitter. By 30, he had made nine successful films and set aviation speed records.
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    A founder's eccentricity can begin as protection, then become real life and turn admiration into pity.
  10. @business
    After credentialed executives nearly drove Apple to bankruptcy, Steve Jobs returned in 1997 and led the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
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    Big plans for the future have become archaic curiosities. That is a crisis for anyone building what comes next.
  12. @business
    The deepest contrarian question is not “What should we oppose?” It is “What valuable company is nobody building?”

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