I stopped trading. I took the time to understand myself, and I came back. And when I returned to the dance floor, you welcomed me with open arms, smiled, and said, “Welcomeback, I see you get it now. Did you bring the band-aids?” And I did. Best loser wins.
New episode: Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
Or what I learned from reading Zero to One for the 3rd (or 4th) time:
0:00 Every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.
0:21 Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.
1:24 Founders only sell when they have no more concrete visions for the company. Definitive founders with robust plans don't sell.
2:03 A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definitive mastery.
3:44 Don’t do anything someone else can do.
4:29 Today's best practices lead to dead ends. The best paths are new and untried.
5:05 Technology is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less, ratcheting up our fundamental capabilities to a higher level. By creating new technologies, we rewrite the plan of the world.
6:25 Indeed, the single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.
9:16 Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is even in shorter supply than genius.
9:53 The present is the past biting into the future.
10:37 Small groups of people bound together by a sense of mission have changed the world for the better.
11:25 This is what startup has to do: question received ideas and rethink business from scratch.
13:36 The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd, but to think for yourself.
15:57 Creative monopoly means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for its creator.
18:50 If you're interested in making things, you'll be less afraid to pursue this activity single-mindedly and thereby become incredibly good at them.
22:03 If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: Will this business still be around a decade from now?
26:30 Every monopoly dominates a large share of its market. Therefore, every startup should start with a very small market. Always err on the side of starting too small. If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.
28:53 Competition is for losers. Avoid competition as much as possible.
29:44 The definitive person determines the one best thing to do and then does it. The definitive person strives to be great at something substantial. They strive to be a monopoly of one.
31:15 What is luck? The ability to exploit accidents. — Napoleon
33:20 We do not live in a normal world. We live under a power law. And as a result, company outcomes follow a power law. A small handful of companies radically outperform all others.
34:00 If you do start your own company, you must remember the power law to operate it well.
34:05 The most important things are singular.
36:29 Making mistakes is the privilege of the active.
38:00 The best entrepreneurs know this: Every great business is built around a secret that is hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world. When you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.
40:54 A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.
41:15 The founding of a company lasts as long as a company is creating new things, and it ends when creation stops.
41:25 No company has a culture. Every company is a culture.
41:48 Since time is your most valuable asset, it is odd to spend it working with people who you don't envision any long-term future together.
42:09 Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.
42:37 Your company should be a tribe of like-minded people fiercely devoted to the company mission.
44:02 Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true.
44:24 Advertising matters because it works. It works on nerds and it works on you.
44:49 Advertising doesn't exist to make you buy a product right away. It exists to embed subtle impressions that will drive sales later.
46:29 Poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure. If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business.
49:00 When Howard Hughes was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1939 for his achievements in aviation, he didn't even show up to claim it.
52:00 The most important task in business, the creation of new value, cannot be reduced to a formula and applied by professionals.
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New podcast with @garrytan, @farbood and Daniel Francis.
Live in the Future!
00:00 Guest Intros
02:35 Live in the Future
03:58 Will AI Outsmart us?
07:43 In the Anthropic Breadline
09:59 The Tech Genie Is Out
12:33 We Invested in COVID?!
14:25 Good Writing Is Novelty
18:50 Living Like It’s 2028
24:32 Truth dot ai
30:18 Does China have the Weights?
35:38 Everyone has AI Anxiety
39:32 Have Your Agent Talk to My Agent
42:01 What if Open Source takes the Lead?
44:03 The Sun is Setting on Google
48:00 Ride the AGI
50:46 Will There be Startups?
54:05 Defending Taiwan
1:00:05 The California Empire
1:01:26 If the U.S. Falls
1:03:11 Universal Basic Robot
1:06:01 Humans as AI Handlers
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