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“Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.”

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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

This book explores the principles and strategies for creating successful startups and shaping the future of business and technology. more

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Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel is a prominent entrepreneur and venture capitalist, co-founder of PayPal, and a key figure in the tech industry. He is known for his early investment in Facebook and his role in shaping the modern venture capital landscape. more

“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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“Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.”

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“Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.”

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“The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition.”

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“Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.”

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“We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.”

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“A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.”

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“Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company’s value - don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.”

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“But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.”

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