Sublime

Peter Thiel doesn’t need much of an intro. He has been at both sides of the fundraising table, sometimes concurrently. He first invested in a precursor to what would become PayPal and soon after joined it in the early days as a co-founder and CEO. Later he founded and invested in Palantir, which specializes in big-data analytics. In August 2004, Th

The lesson for entrepreneurs is clear: if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business.

firm invests in 10 companies with the potential to become monopolies—already

Max Levchin, my co-founder at PayPal, says that startups should make their early staff as personally similar as possible.

One 40-something grad student that I knew was running six different companies in 1999.