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Peter Thiel
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Peter Thiel
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 11
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Peter Andreas Thiel
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The developing world can just do things that are extensive or horizontal, that basically copy. The developed world needs to do things that are intensive or vertical, where we take our civilization to the next level.
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When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.
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Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.
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Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.
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Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.
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As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.
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The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.
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Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘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 at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.
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Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.
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I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.
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Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.
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My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.
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Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.
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A company does better the less it pays the CEO.
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If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
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In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.
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The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.
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I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
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Twitter is hard to evaluate. They have a lot of potential. It's a horribly mismanaged company — probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there. But it's such a solid franchise it may even work with all that.
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What valuable company is nobody building?
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