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Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Thiel offers an alternative to perfect competition: monopoly. Without competition, they can produce at the quantity and price combination that maximizes their profits. Successful strategies attract imitators, so the best businesses are difficult to copy.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
THE SECRET QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
But life is not a portfolio: not for a startup founder, and not for any individual. An entrepreneur cannot “diversify” herself: you cannot run dozens of companies at the same time and then hope that one of them works out well. Less obvious but just as important, an individual cannot diversify his own life by keeping dozens of equally possible caree
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Reid Hoffman • The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America
amazon.com
The power law means that differences between companies will dwarf the differences in roles inside companies. You could have 100% of the equity if you fully fund your own venture, but if it fails you’ll have 100% of nothing. Owning just 0.01% of Google, by contrast, is incredibly valuable (more than $35 million as of this writing).
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
THE BUSINESS VERSION of our contrarian question is: what valuable company is nobody building?