Peter Thiel: “You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that, you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.” https://t.co/5vsCKZnCH1
Peter Thiel: “You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that, you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.” https://t.co/5vsCKZnCH1
“it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.” That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
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